A giant rat species, long considered lost to science, has been rediscovered alive in the remote Papua mountains after a ...

The trend for extinct or thought-to-be-lost creatures might be to revive them, but it’s undeniably cooler to actually prove that they still exist. And the rediscovered giant woolly rat is a creature ...

Scientist captures first-ever video of giant in Papua New Guinea. The rodent can grow nearly 3 feet long and weigh over 4 pounds. The species were previously known only from 1989 museum records.

Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year ...

LONDON (AP) — A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Magawa the giant ...

In more than 20 years of pest control, I thought I’d seen it all. But when I saw the images of a 22-inch rat found in a house in Redcar, even I was taken aback. In all my years, I’ve never seen ...

New data has revealed that Britain is experiencing a significant rat problem, with more than half a million infestations reported in the past two years. Analysis of Freedom of Information data by ...