Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are ...

Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster July 7, 2000, in New York on July 7, 2000. A study published Wednesday suggests that brown rats crawled off ships arriving in the Americas earlier ...

Turns out Chicago's famous "rat hole" was squirrelly all along. A new study has determined that the famous full-body imprint in a concrete sidewalk slab on West Roscoe Street — dubbed “Splatatouille” ...

The Norway rat — also known as brown rat— is the most populous rat in South Carolina. SC Department of Natural Resources Provided Here’s another best of list Greenville is on — lots of rats. Orkin has ...

There was once a showdown between the City of Joburg and a bunch of inventors and it came down to who had the better body ...

(CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the ...

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 — ...