Now in its early planning stages, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s rat eradication campaign is targeting a total of four ...

A compelling biography about a groundbreaking scientist and his controversial work, using rodent cities to examine the ...

Baltimore’s Rat Rubout team takes 235,000 calls a year, seeking to exterminate the vermin population plaguing neighborhoods.

I was offered the position of provincial plant pathologist for Alberta Agriculture by Joe Gurba, head of the crop protection ...

The species of rat predominately found in Chicago is the Norway rat, according to the rodent control bureau. The Norway rat originated in Asia centuries ago and has an average lifespan of six to ...

Rather than rats in general, this is about a type of native wildlife called woodrats. The other type of rats, the common Norway rats, are an introduced animal that originated in northern China and ...

A couple thought they could hear an animal in the walls of their house. It took them a while to realize that there was another source for the noise.

A male rat tries to mate with as many female rats as possible. Even though brown rats are also called Norway rats, the geographical name’s not accurate. They’re not from Norway. They’re from ...

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 ...