Four months ago, she would have rather wrestled a steer than cheer for the Florida Panthers. Today, she is the proud owner of rat shirt, Panthers colored gear from Marchand's hunting ...

Key Points Rats are common where food, water, and shelter are easy to find. Signs of rat activity in your yard include holes 2 to 4 inches in diameter, rat droppings, and partially eaten fruits and ...

Brown rats showed up in the Americas later, though exactly how much later has gone unresolved. Many historical accounts indicate an arrival date sometime around U.S. independence in 1776, ...

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 ...

Brown rats are also known as sewer rats, and can survive on almost any kind of food: fruit, grain, worms, trash, feces, carcasses. Much of Dr. Parsons’s research in New York is carried out in ...

Rats in Boston may be spreading a potentially deadly disease, according to a Tufts University study. The disease is called ...

Brown rats are larger and more aggressive than black rats - and they want to be close to human populations, said Matthew Frye, a researcher and community educator with the New York State ...

Even though brown rats are also called Norway rats, the geographical name’s not accurate. They’re not from Norway. They’re from Mongolia and got to North America in the mid- to late-1700s.

Brown rats are larger and more aggressive than black rats - and they want to be close to human populations, said Matthew Frye, a researcher and community educator with the New York State ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.

Then, the most prevalent species was the brown rat or Rattus norvegicus. It is now the only rat in New York City, likely arriving in North America just before the American Revolution.

Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York on July 7, 2000. A study published Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in the journal Science Advances suggests that brown rats crawled off ...