BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, October 11, 2015 (ENS) – A new rat with features never before seen by scientists has been discovered on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia a two-day trek from the nearest ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats. In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat on each side. They ...

A Texas rodent threatened by habitat loss may be one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Texas ...

Solomon Islands locals have long spoken about giant rats that scurry around in trees and crack open coconuts, but it was never clear whether such a species actually existed. Now, scientists have found ...

If you have a fear of abnormally large rodents, you might want to look away now. A scientist has discovered a whopping species of rat that measures more than 2.5 feet long – three times the size of a ...

An introduced black rat scratches through leaf litter, looking for food. Nearby, a native water rat watches on, its beady eyes shining. The native rat pounces out from the shadows, sending the invader ...