Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the ... of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. It didn't take long for them to push ...

A male rat tries to mate with as many female rats as possible. Even though brown rats are also called Norway rats, the geographical name’s not accurate. They’re not from Norway. They’re from ...

Who can we thank for introducing rats to NYC? Apparently Nathaniel Katz, "The Rat Man," who now has his own memorial in The Battery!

I’ve lived for many years in an old apartment building in New York and, for all the years I’ve spent in this elevator ...

No one wants to find rats in the attic of their homes -– or in any other parts, for that matter. However, when it happens, it's important to take steps to either get rid of the rats humanely or ...

The answer to the latter, it became clear, was much more than a T-shirt. The brown rat, or Rattus norvegicus, isn't all that different from the average New Yorker. It hates long commutes and loves ...

A pet owner has left the internet in hysterics after sharing her unusual pet's reaction to getting petted in a clip that has gone viral on social media. The hilarious video, shared on TikTok on ...

Poison, one of the most common methods of killing rats ... getting some kind of disease or property damage,” Brown says. But is rat hunting legal? On this, the city is clear: No. (That ...

Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is the rat species common in cities all over the world. While previously European cities were inhabited by black rats (Rattus rattus), nowadays they are rare, having lost ...

New York rats are primarily Norway (or brown) rats. Their ancestors lived in the wild in northern China and Mongolia, were established in parts of Europe by 1500, and then followed Europeans ...

LONG-GONE species like the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo bird could return from the dead as part of a “de-extinction” campaign. The term “extinct” brings to ...

There are old rat paths beneath the benches in at least two ferry sheds. In the spring and summer, multitudes of one species, the brown rat, live in twisting, many-chambered burrows in vacant lots ...