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

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 ...

In New York, they forced the city to hire a "rat czar." In Chicago, they have prompted the deployment of feral cats. In New Orleans, they are literally eating police evidence. Now researchers are ...

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Seattle and King County Public Health Department advise you to flush your toilet if you find a rat in it! Here's how they got ...

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 – ...