Planning permission has been requested for a new air conditioning unit to be installed in the jumping rats' enclosure at Jersey Zoo. Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is also seeking permission to ...

A giant rat species, long considered lost to science, has been rediscovered alive in the remote Papua mountains after a ...

A new kind of border patrol agent could soon start work in African ports, sniffing out illegal goods that are smuggled across country lines. They’re rats. And they wear tiny red vests. African giant ...

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 ...