Both black and brown rats are omnivores ... According to the study, "curbing brown rat access to animal protein sources should have the largest impact on constraining this species' preferred ...

Black rats are developing a genetic mutation linked with a resistance to rat poisons. And there’s more bad news.

triggering a brutal war of the rats that saw a sharp transition from black to brown rat dominance on the continent, a new study finds. The researchers made the discovery after studying centuries ...

It can be difficult to accurately date brown rat remains at archaeological sites because the rodents burrow (in contrast, black rats climb), and so more recently living brown rats can end up ...

Neither rat species is native to North America ... where black rats often prefer to stay. Both black and brown rats are omnivores, but brown rats are especially fond of animal products ...

Black rats in Australia have developed a genetic mutation that’s linked with resistance to common rat poisons. And there’s ...

Shipping networks across the Atlantic “essentially functioned as rat superhighways,” and one species took over the East Coast in only a matter of decades. Here’s how the lowly brown rat ...