The timing coincides with the introduction of brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), which spread from Asia and outcompeted black rats almost as soon as they set their little clawed feet on the European ...

While there are a wide variety of domestic rats out there, they all stem from the brown rat (Rattus Norvegicus). That is why domestic rats have blunt noses, smaller ears and eyes, and a tail that ...

The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the most ubiquitous and familiar creatures on the planet — but also perhaps one of the least understood.According to Kaylee Byers, one of the lead ...

Rats — non-native black (Rattus rattus) and brown (Rattus norvegicus) — are drawn to any sort of outside food sources such as pet food, chicken food, bird seed and kitchen scraps in compost piles.

Ecologists have attributed the rodent menace in Kolkata, like many other densely populated cities, to two species, Rattus norvegicus (brown rat) and Bandicota indica (greater bandicoot rat). There is ...

Now, in a study conducted between 2019 and 2022, researchers have uncovered lungworm in brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Atlanta, Georgia.