There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are ...

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 ...

Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H., and Hinton, M. A. C., "History of British Mammals" (1910–21).

New York City’s cold snap is good news for the city’s rat catchers - New York’s ‘rat czar’ Kathleen Corradi says the weather is keeping down the rat population ...

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 ...

A new study led by researchers at University of Richmond has revealed that growing rat populations are the world are closely ...

On Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, brown rats scamper between their home under a tree grille and a pile of rubbish bags full of food waste. Lighting his shot to blend with the glow of the street ...

This week's frigid weather has many New York City residents shivering, scurrying into cozy spots and feeling sapped. The United States' most populous city has been spared the Upper Midwest's extreme ...