No one, not even New Yorkers, can be prepared for a showdown between a rat and a blue heron. The majestic bird made Central Park an impromptu restaurant recently, settling in a grassy area to dine on ...

Move over, pizza rat; a blue heron is the city’s new icon. A rat was quite the snack for a great blue heron that was caught on camera eating the rodent in Central Park. A video shared on Twitter by ...

A photographer has captured the incredible moment a Great Blue Heron devoured a freshly-caught New York City rat at Central Park Pond this morning. The image shows the magnificent bird bending into ...

Footage emerged on Twitter of a Great Blue Heron swallowing a nasty, giant NYC rat. The video shows the heron dunking the rat in the Central Park pond before enjoying its meal. The birdwatcher who ...

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 “dinosaurian.” The ...

A city’s heroes arrive in strange forms. Nobody could have expected, for example, that an unassuming alligator nicknamed Chance The Snapper would arrive in the summer of 2019 to become one of ...