Tales of a "Giant Woolly Rat" have been told for decades, yet no scientist had ever confirmed Mallomys istapantap was alive.

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 ...

(SKY NEWS) - A gas engineer has told how he discovered a rat bigger than his dog as he worked at a block of apartments. Tony Smith, 46, spotted the dead rodent in a bush near a children's ...

Weighing more than two pounds and growing up to 1.5 feet long, the Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika) is about four times larger than city rats scurrying through alleys and dumpsters the world over.

Resarchers had long feared that the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Recently, researchers finally captured images of four of these creatures.

A fully grown giant wood moth can weigh up to 30 grams and have a wingspan between 15 and 25 centimeters (6-10 inches). This ...

CARI INSERRA: Runa is her name. SUMMERS: Runa is a Gambian pouched rat, also called an African giant pouched rat. She arrived at the zoo just a few weeks ago. And she is no ordinary street rat.

The Vangunu giant rat, or Uromys vika is one of the world's rarest rodents and is only known to live on Vangunu, apart of the Solomon Islands. University of Melbourne and Solomon Islands National ...

By Rebecca Carballo For years, the Indigenous people on Vangunu, one of the Solomon Islands, had insisted a critically endangered giant rat that could chew through coconuts still lived among the ...

Named the Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika), the animals can weigh up to 1 kg (2.2 lb) and measure up to 45.7 cm (1.5 ft) long, making it three to four times bigger than a typical black or brown rat.

While the jury is still out on whether or not the African giant pouched rat is cute, it’s harder to deny the impressive power of its nose. Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already ...