The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct rats, which was around 25 percent bigger again. (Ken Aplin, CSIRO) Watch out Heathcliff, there's a rat out there bigger than you.

In Cambodia, the world’s most contaminated country for landmines, a giant rat named Ronin has become an expert at saving ...

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.

The rat, which is now officially known by the scientific name Uromys vika, is a real heavyweight, coming in at 2.2 pounds.To put that in perspective, the average rat you’d see in the US would ...

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 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 first giant kangaroo rat I saw was fluffy and round, with cartoonishly large eyes. It looked like something that might be big in Japan. It was also long dead—stuffed, ...

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.