With roughly three million rats living in New York City, scientists set out to understand the daily lives—and speech patterns—of these rodent city-dwellers.

The war on rats in Washington D.C. is not going well. But if the city takes a page out of New York's waste management ...

The externalities of supplying rats with an all-you-can-eat buffet are hard to price, but one study that attempted to do so ...

You could call it rata-tour-y. New York City has always been at war with rats, from when they jumped from ship to shore in the 18th century to the city’s anti-rat campaign today. Over many decades, ...

Scurrying around the blood-soaked dioramas and giant skeletons popping up on suburban lawns this October, you may find a red-eyed and sharp-fanged rubber rat or two. Because of their perceived ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- In an attempt to curb the growing rat problem the New York City, the sanitation department is cracking down on the one thing rats love most: garbage. Under the new policy, ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York City's war on rats is about to heat up. Mayor Bill de Blasio is expanding a rat removal program in his new budget. The mayor is planning to devote close to $3 million to ...

A Brooklyn mom’s viral video shocked New Yorkers after she discovered a hole in her kids’ room led straight to a subway—and a ...

Study finds 18 unknown viruses in New York rats. — -- Rats are a part of daily life in New York as they scurry about subway tracks and garbage heaps. However, even though the creatures been ...

NEW YORK -- Move over pizza rat. Video of a new, hungry New York City rodent is going viral. A rat was spotted grabbing a donut from the subway tracks at a Lower Manhattan station and sharing it with ...