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 rivals – ...

Source: Zeynel Cebeci on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 license Most people don’t have a very high opinion of brown rats. These invasive rodents live wherever humans live, particularly in urban areas ...

Rats: love 'em or hate 'em, they're here to stay.

Now researchers are shedding light on why brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. The new study suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than ...

In light of the European Commission's new proposal, individuals would only be allowed to poison rats at home — not mice.

FILE - 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 ...