And the occasional rat or two, if it happens to be in the right neighborhood. The video, Partridge told the New York Post, should serve as a reminder that birds, including the blue heron ...

Legend has it that there's a rat in New York City for every person, more than eight million in total. One of the biggest questions about rats is how their populations change over time. If ...

Philadelphia ranked within the top-10 in a recent ranking of America's most rat-infested cities, topping other urban ...

Some exterminators have maintained for years that the biggest rats in the country, perhaps in the world, are found in New York, Jersey City, Washington, and San Francisco, but biologists ...

A machine, a trap door and a pool full of liquid alcohol. That's the latest weapon in the war against rats, say officials in New York. The rats are attracted with bait by a machine and sent ...

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

Atlanta was the only city in Georgia to make the list.

I wanted a firsthand look at how New York City's war on rats was actually going. The truth was nastier —and funnier — than I ...