Scientist captures first-ever video of giant in Papua New Guinea. The rodent can grow nearly 3 feet long and weigh over 4 pounds. The species were previously known only from 1989 museum records.

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 a lowland forest in southeastern Madagascar, what was missing proved as telling as what was found. Researchers trapping ...

I think it’s a fundamental duty of government to take care of infestations such as this,” Idaho state Rep. John Gannon said.

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Most people aren't fond of rats, but a Hawaiian project took that to new levels. And without those invasive rats, nature ...