An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being "one of the world ...

For the first time, scientists have photographed a large, elusive rat that’s on the brink of extinction. Called the Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika), the critically endangered species lives on just one ...

Carolina isn't your average retiree. After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that medical tests had missed, ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

People generally fall into one of two camps: rats are cute… or rats are decidedly not cute. But everyone should be able to agree that photos of an extremely rare giant rat are pretty fascinating. The ...

“It’s not a one-off. Rats are being spotted more and more around our area” local officials in England said David Taylor and Stephen Martin - Eston Ward Councillors/Facebook A 22-inch rat was ...

The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed. They helped researchers prove that they were right. By Rebecca Carballo For years, the ...

Resarchers had long feared that the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Recently, researchers finally captured images of four of these creatures. The ...