Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping ...

Gray rat snakes are among the most common snakes in Mississippi. Their unique body shape helps them climb almost anything.

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

A scientist has discovered a whopping species of rat that measures more than 2.5 feet long - three times the size of a brown rat.

The biggest rat that Bobby Corrigan, a world-renowned rat expert, said he’s ever heard of was a 1.87-pound rat in Missouri. He jokes that he carries a $500 check to give anyone who finds a two ...

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.

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.

(The single rat in the study was found in Zaira, a community that's against logging, Lavery says.) The newfound giant rat perches on a tree trunk in an artist's imagining.

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 in ...

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 rare giant rat can grow to be about a foot-and-a-half long – about the size of a newborn baby – and reportedly can chew through coconuts with its teeth.