Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

I wanted a firsthand look at how New York City's war on rats was actually going. The truth was nastier —and funnier — than I ...

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 ...

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

Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman has shared her horror at finding a dead rat in a loaf of bread - but only after eating half of it. Nombulelo Mkumla bought a loaf of whole wheat brown bread from a local shop in South ...

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 ...