Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

New York City has lots of rats. Officials are trying to contain them by resorting to something many other cities have relied on for years.

The reaction to The Rat Man? “Total confusion,” he tells Untapped New York. “If you listen to some conversations you hear people say, ‘And they gave this guy a monument!?’ Some people ...

In her new book, TINY New York, Bronx-native Suzi Siegel highlights the smallest places and things you can find in the Big Apple. A round-up of New York's most obscure abandoned islands ...

From Peter the Great to Nicholas II, Russian rulers always understood the need to maintain an army and navy capable of preserving the empire's great power status. This volume examines how Imperial ...

Your browser does not support iframes. Your browser does not support iframes. Overview York wears its commitment to social justice on its sleeve. It was the first ...

NEW YORK -- The US Open started on Aug. 28 in New York City, with the biggest names in tennis taking the courts in Queens. Officials say while there are no specific or credible threats to the ...

Those animals, according to NYC Parks, include fish, frogs, reptiles, small mammals and birds. And the occasional rat or two, if it happens to be in the right neighborhood. The video, Partridge ...

The video shows the bird eating the rat in a process that took several minutes. "This video shows the long process of the heron swallowing the rat whole, as a snake would. I could not believe that ...

Well, this is one way to handle New York City's rodent problem. A blue heron was seen devouring an enormous rat in Central Park, and the whole thing was caught on video. The footage was captured ...

There’s a new rat czar in town. An otherwise majestic great blue heron was spotted devouring a New York City rat Saturday — a stomach-churning chow-down that a witness described as ...