New Yorkers may not all agree on which urban critter is the more fitting symbol for their city — the resilient rat, the nuke-proof ... the inhabitants of New York.” Like many New Yorkers ...

‘Drug sellers left’ but rats remain in park Back in Bryant Park, home to the main branch of the New York Public Library and two giant stone lions, tourists and workers huddled under ...

Pigeons are particularly iconic in New York City, where they've been dubbed, among other things, "rats with wings." Such ...

The Parks Department will open the park late two mornings a week and use a battery of techniques to hopefully diminish the ...

For the first time, scientists have photographed a large, elusive rat that’s on the brink of ... Solomon Islands National University, to the New York Times’ Rebecca Carballo.

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

Now, a species of giant ... a rat, it makes the animal small enough that it could wander among tightly packed crates in shipping containers to combat illegally smuggled products. In a new study ...

While the jury is still out on whether or not the African giant pouched rat ... This is where the rats and their acute sense of smell come in. According to new research led by APOPO and published ...

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant pouched ... said new methods need to be ...