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.

News; Technology & Science; Terrifying new 2.5ft long giant rat as big as a cat discovered by stunned scientist The subalpine woolly rat, measuring a whopping 2.7ft in length, has been discovered ...

The data collected spanned an average of 12 years and comprised rat sightings, trappings and inspection reports. It revealed “significant increasing trends” in rat numbers in 11 of the 16 cities, ...

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 ...

Carolina is an African giant pouched rat who can screen 100 sputum (i.e phlegm) samples for tuberculosis in 20 minutes—much faster than a human, who takes four days to process the same amount of ...