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

A PEST control expert has issued advice how to keep rats at bay as the rodents look for food and heat during with cooler ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...