The African giant pouched rats can grow up to 45 centimetres and weigh up to 1.5 kilograms, about the size of a Chihuahua.

The Japanese fast-food chain Sukiya is temporarily shutting down its nearly 2,000 locations after a rat was found in a soup dish earlier this year.. A rat was reportedly found in a bowl of miso ...

Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Researchers in a remote Indonesian jungle have discovered a giant rat that is about five times the size of a typical city rat, as well as a tiny opossum, scientists ...

The explosives-sniffing African giant pouched rat Magawa — holder of a Guinness World Record for the most land mines detected by that species — died in retirement over the weekend. He was 8 ...

The first giant kangaroo rat I saw was fluffy and round, with cartoonishly large eyes. It looked like something that might be big in Japan. It was also long dead—stuffed, mounted, and stuck ...

Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat and a tiny possum that are apparently new to science, underscoring the stunning biodiversity of the Southeast Asian nation ...

Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat and a tiny possum that are apparently new to science, underscoring the stunning biodiversity of the Southeast Asian nation ...

Rats as big as dachshunds once lived alongside humans — who frequently ate the robust rodents, according to a recent study. Scientists on an expedition to the Southeast Asian island of Timor ...

The Japanese fast food chain Sukiya is temporarily closing its nearly 2,000 locations after a rat was found in soup a customer ordered on ... A subsidiary to restaurant giant Zensho Holdings, ...