The world is filled with problems of all different types. For millions of people around the world, one of the biggest ...

Mysterious 'Wooly' Rat That Vanished Into the Mountains in 1989 Revealed Itself for the First Time Since Some creatures are so elusive that even after knowing about them, scientists face difficulty in ...

Snakes might not top everyone’s list of favorite creatures, but there’s no denying they’ve mastered the art of growing long, ...

In addition to having local hunters as his guides, Vejmělka set up a camera trap on a fallen log over a stream in a dense forest on Mount Wilhelm—the highest mountain in New Guinea. The camera ran for ...

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 ...

The Giant Woolly Rat measures 85 cm and weighs nearly 2 kg. New Guinean Woolly rats, together with the giant cloud rats of the Philippines, are the largest murine rodents in the world.

Then in 2015, Dr. Lavery obtained the first DNA sample from a Vika rat that had died after loggers cut down a tree it was living in. He compared the DNA and the skull to other rodents from ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are warning that cities across the US and beyond are becoming far ...

Non-profit APOPO is training African giant pouched rats to help in the global fight against the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade. Here, a rat on a lead searches for concealed wildlife ...

The Vangunu giant rat can rip through coconuts with its teeth. Twice the size of a common rat, researchers feared that Uromys vika had gone extinct after long being listed as critically endangered ...

Turns out, The Empire State — and the Big Apple, more specifically — may not be the most rat-infested state or city in the United States, according to a Yelp report.