This real-life mutant sewer rat turned out to be far less friendly than the cartoon version known to lurk through the Big ...

"These are just pure sewer rats. They're big." Their size, number and persistence mean the rats are wreaking havoc on properties in Torbay, which has a population of about 8,000. Harris saw that ...

Rats were swimming and thrashing all about me ... and then I knew nothing more. . . .” Rare are sewer accidents like John Debo’s. In 1929 in Manhattan an 8-year-old boy, playing carelessly ...

Turns out there really are alligators in the sewers — just not in the Big Apple. A recent study by researchers at the University of Florida found that nearly three dozen species of wildlife are ...

In Seattle, where I grew up, the rats excel at climbing sewer pipes—from the inside. Somewhere in my hometown right now, a long, wet Norway rat is poking its twitchy pink nose above the water ...

Rats are, in many ways, better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their upstairs neighbors stomping around at 4 ...

Mr Chong identified the rodent in photos as the sewer rat, or rattus norvegicus, the same species that invades public housing estates. According to the NParks' website, the sewer rat ...