While the name of John Bumpass Calhoun might not be familiar to everyone these days, he and his life’s work — studying rats ...

The study demonstrated that the giant rats successfully detected samples of elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales and ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North ...

Baltimore’s Rat Rubout team takes 235,000 calls a year, seeking to exterminate the vermin population plaguing neighborhoods.

Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus), like most species of rat, are very sociable and cooperate to help each other out Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

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 ...

The rats are not pet rats, Perkes said. They’re large, invasive Norway (or brown) rats more common in large cities like New York. Norway, or brown, rats such as the one shown in this image are ...

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 ...

In Washington D.C., house mice and brown rats are the two most common rodents you'll find around your home and in the streets ...

South Africa is faced with an enormous and ever-increasing rat population that could cause serious diseases such as bubonic ...

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 ...

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 ...