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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The abundance of animals down there was surprising.” While there has been thorough research on rats in sewer systems, what other animals are up to under the streets is less documente ...