Few who kill rats for a living hope for more than ... and were established in parts of Europe by about 1500. (The misnomer “Norway rat” may have arisen when an infested ship that happened ...

Different types of rats build nests in different spots. For example, Norway rats often live in low areas like basements, drains, or sewers. Roof rats, which are common in coastal areas ...

Twice a year, a patrol team scrutinizes barns, straw bales and grain storage bins along a 600-kilometre stretch of the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary. They're looking for rats, continuing a 75 ...

Schewel and Sundrop go out about four nights a week into neighborhoods with high rat populations — such as Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick — to kill as many rats as Sundrop can catch ...

Thanks to a dedicated group of scientists training them for the job, giant rats are taking down the illegal wildlife ... Should we be actively working to kill invasive species? Absolutely ...

People often marvel at how much—and how little—intelligence is displayed in the animal kingdom. Often the subject of research ...

But we still shouldn't be squishing them, because they are adorable.

Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) “actually do so well with humans that they no longer have any populations that are outside of the human niche,” Lord explains. “It's useful in one regard ...

It has been four years since the original publication of the draft sequence of the rat genome ... of the unusually large size of the Brown Norway Y chromosome. This will be addressed by including ...

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