Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals – ...

Now researchers are shedding light on why brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. The new study suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than ...

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Now researchers are shedding light on why brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. The new study suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than ...

FILE - Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York on July 7, 2000. A study published Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in the journal Science Advances suggests that brown rats crawled off ...