It has bluish-black fur, a pointed nose, and big ears. It is cleaner and not as fierce as the brown rat but more suspicious and harder to trap. It is an acrobatic beast. It can rapidly climb a ...

Ryan/Globe Staff) Rattus norvegicus — also known as the brown rat ... literally a family of rats,” Burnley said. “They were ...

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New York rats are primarily Norway (or brown) rats. Their ancestors lived ... Small statured and intent, Corrigan was raised in a big Irish Catholic family on Long Island. He talks like New ...

my journey into rat world left me with two big questions: What do we owe our cities, and what do they owe us? The answer to the latter, it became clear, was much more than a T-shirt. The brown rat ...

While both can vary in color from gray to brown to white, rats can also have a black coat ... meaning they’re likely to be awake when you are during the day. Have you got a Big Question you’d like us ...

The fen raft spider has a brown or black body with white or cream stripes along the sides. With a span of up to almost three inches (8cm), they are the largest of the UK’s 660 native species of spider ...

Heat some sunflower oil in a frying pan and lightly fry the sausages for 10 minutes or until they are golden brown on each side ... out long tails for your rats. Also add some small blobs of ...

Resident Derek Brown said: "It's the structural damage they might be doing to the cliff face that is the big worry." Roger Miles said the rats were as big as cats Michael Lindsay has run the town ...

Two of the teens had been arrested for armed carjacking eight months earlier; one was still on probation. This was in keeping with what police had been regularly seeing: the same perpetrators arrested ...

To be haunted, “One need not be a House,” wrote the great poet Emily Dickinson in 1862, “The Brain—has Corridors surpassing ...

A small plastic pumpkin has given my mind both a safe place and a different appreciation of a day that means so much to so ...