The giant rats sniffing out unexploded landmines in a war-torn nation - The rats are about the same size as a Chihuahua ...

The African giant pouched rats, which can grow up to 45 centimeters (around 18 inches) and weigh up to 1.5 kilograms (more than 3 pounds), are on the front line, making their way nimbly across fields ...

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

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 ...

For more than 20 years, people in the Solomon Islands have told scientists about huge rats that live in the treetops. But no one could prove the creature actually existed—until November 2015 ...

Indigenous people on the Solomon Islands' island of Vangunu have spoken about the existence of giant rats for years. The species, known widely as the Vangunu giant rat, was first identified in ...

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after researchers successfully trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the ...

A Gambian rat who was training to be a landmine detector arrived at the San Diego Zoo a few weeks ago. She's better suited to her new role as a rat ambassador.

Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed.

"Everybody's first impression is that the rats are our enemies." Giant rat celebrated for detecting one of the world's deadliest illnesses: 'We really do see them as heroes' first appeared on The ...

In the ten months since the government slapped an embargo on all but the most essential imports—in a desperate attempt to conserve Mexico’s dwindling dollar credits—smuggling has become an ...

Resarchers feared the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Then they captured images of four of these creatures.