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 ...

Then, the most prevalent species was the brown rat or Rattus norvegicus. It is now the only rat in New York City, likely arriving in North America just before the American Revolution .

For instance, brown rats like to hang out on or near the ground rather than in the trees or other high spots, where black rats often prefer to stay. Rats are seen in a street in New York, City.

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 ...

Now hiring: New York City ‘rat czar’. Requirements: ‘Killer instinct’ and ‘bloodthirsty’ attitude. Mayor Eric Adams has been waging a war against the brown rat for years.

New research suggests that brown rats crawled off ships earlier than previously thought and quickly out-competed rival black rats to take over North American cities.

Brown rats showed up in the Americas later, though exactly how much later has gone unresolved. Many historical accounts indicate an arrival date sometime around U.S. independence in 1776, ...

Brown said DC’s numbers could be so high because the city encourages residents to call in each rat sighting. Public reports ...

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 ...

National News How brown rats crawled off ships and conquered North American cities The data suggests that shipping networks across the Atlantic Ocean “essentially functioned as rat superhighways ...