Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which ...

New York City is notorious for its large population of rats, but depending on who you ask, there's one American city that has more.

Elizabeth Bowen Visiting Cambodia some years ago, I came upon a band of musicians busking at the side of the road. The dozen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of the 101 brown rats from Chicago alleys tested in the study, 74% tested positive to at least one AR compound and 32% were exposed to multiple AR compounds. Of the 93 sampled mesopredators ...

The Black rat lives up to a year and the Brown rat lives up to two years. Some can outlive the average lifespan.” ...