Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

The biggest issue? Rats can carry diseases. Brown rats are known to spread a bacterial disease called leptospirosis, which is caused by bacteria in the urine of infected animals. They can also ...

I’ve lived for many years in an old apartment building in New York and, for all the years I’ve spent in this elevator ...

In New York, as in all great seaports, rats abound. One is occasionally in their presence without being aware of it. In the whole city relatively few blocks are entirely free of them. They have ...

Brown rats are burrowing animals that are widest ... Williams walks over to a large cage and picks out a fat gray rat with an ivory belly and a split ear from a youthful brawl.

The biggest rat that Bobby Corrigan ... 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.

Black rats are rarely seen in Finland, and usually they are limited to seaports or other transport hubs. Brown rat is one of the largest members of the muroid superfamily. While on average brown rats ...

Getty Images The Spruce Pets explains that most per rats are a type called the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), which is also known as common rat, brown rat ... bests kept in large enclosures.

A spider species known for growing as large as a rat and feeding on fish is set to ... We're of course talking about the Fen Raft Spider, a large brown arachnid that can grow to the size of ...

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 ...

If finding an eight-legged creature scurrying across the floor is your worst nightmare, we have some bad news for you: One of the UK's largest spider breeds ... risk You can spot a Fen Raft spider by ...