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

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

The world's biggest rat in terms of length is the Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), which reaches 3ft (0.9 metres) long, including the tail, which makes up half of its total length.

SOLOMON ISLANDS, — 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Between 2010 and 2015, Tyrone Lavery and his colleagues searched tree hollows and set up camera traps and aluminum boxes. They were trying to capture evidence of the Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika.

Giant Rat That Fell From Sky Is New Species. The coconut-eating rodent tumbled from a logged tree on the Solomon Islands, a new study says.

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 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, ...