A video shared online in June 2024 authentically showed a giant rat on the loose in a New York City bodega. Rodent experts told Snopes the large rodent in the video is either a muskrat or a nutria, ...

It looks like California is about to get more money to eradicate giant swamp rats that have infiltrated the Central Valley. The House of Representatives is voting Friday on a bill that includes a ...

Hollywood would have difficulty inventing a rodent as scary as the South American swamp beast that has gained a toehold in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Imagine a rat-looking creature weighing ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is actively promoting hunting and consumption of wild nutria as a strategy for controlling growing numbers of the invasive rodent species that are eating their way ...

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 world ...

WASHINGTON — With about six weeks to go before the government shuts down, House Republicans are still bickering over how best to spend taxpayer dollars. But representatives were able to come together ...