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

Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the ... of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. It didn't take long for them to push ...

There are old rat paths beneath the benches in at least two ferry sheds. In the spring and summer, multitudes of one species, the brown rat, live in twisting, many-chambered burrows in vacant lots ...

Those rat-proof bins? Not rat-proof after all.

In Washington D.C., house mice and brown rats are the two most common rodents you'll find around your home and in the streets ...

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 ...

While both can vary in color from gray to brown to white, rats can also have a black coat ... One thing they have in common is an ability to enter buildings through very tiny holes as small as a ...

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 ...

The rats are not pet rats, Perkes said. They’re large, invasive Norway (or brown) rats more common in large cities like New York. Norway, or brown, rats such as the one shown in this image are ...

The answer to the latter, it became clear, was much more than a T-shirt. The brown rat, or Rattus norvegicus, isn't all that different from the average New Yorker. It hates long commutes and loves ...

Many snakes are top level predators; for example, a single rat ... brown, and ringneck snakes; all four of these are small, slender, and completely benign species that feed on insects, spiders, ...

(AP Photo/Robert Mecea, File) (Robert Mecea, AP2000) Brown rats are the undisputed ... becoming so ubiquitous that they’re known as common rats, street rats or sewer rats. Recommended Videos ...