As urban development continues to creep further into Earth's oldest and most diverse rainforests, a Swansea University-led ...

Vermin aren’t the first thing you think of when considering where to relocate, but perhaps they should be. Rats populate ...

Rats can be attracted to our homes for all sorts of reasons - no matter how much we don't want them near us. But there are ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

The Birmingham bin strike has left residents worrying about the amount of rodents that have been scurrying around streets – ...

According to a recent study, published in Ecology and Evolution, from UC Santa Barbara, the University of Runion, and Duke University, black rats (Rattus rattus) have been spreading the deadly virus ...

Norway rats, or brown rats or Rattus norvegicus, reach sexual maturity around 3 months of age and can breed throughout the year, with breeding peaking in spring and fall, and females can have ...

Their role in spreading disease is well known. The black rat (Rattus rattus), originally from southern Asia, spread through Europe via the spice trade and eventually reached Madagascar between the ...

FILE - 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 ...

They can also be used for balance, to attack predators, or to communicate with other rats. As for rat fur, it can be white, gray, brown, or black. Rat teeth are sharp and strong, especially the ...

Leicester, Leicestershire, UK 30th May 2021. UK News. Brown rats forage for food in an inner city park in Leicester City Centre. Alex Hannam/Empics. Picture: Alamy Helga Pile, Unison head of health, ...