A species of giant rat, the size of a small terrier, has been documented in New Guinea's highlands for the first time.

If you have a fear of abnormally large rodents, you might want to look away now ... Astonishing footage shows a giant rat scampering across a tree branch in the dead of night, likely in search ...

If you have a fear of abnormally large rodents, you might want to look away now ... Astonishing footage shows one of the giant rats scampering across a tree branch in the dead of night, likely ...

(Right) A wildlife detection giant rat triggers the ball to signal a find during training. Images by Lucia Torres/Mongabay. “When we look at exit points from East Africa, seaports play a ...

If you are looking at tracking through the Serengeti ... monkeypox virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). African giant pouched rats have an average lifespan of around eight years ...

Sometimes they’ll bring a special guest—a giant inflatable rat with sharp ... The bricklayers were looking for something big and nasty to get their point across at a protest.

But I don’t see a rat. I see a valuable crime- and disease-fighting buddy. Since 2010, trained African giant pouched rats like this one have sniffed out around 160,000 landmines and other ...

Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct. 29, shows that African giant pouched rats can be trained to ...

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after researchers successfully trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the ...

(Right) A wildlife detection giant rat triggers the ball to signal a find during training. Credit: Lucia Torres/Mongabay. “When we look at exit points from East Africa, seaports play a ...

She added the 6ft (1.8m) tall giant rodents would be "very cute, sitting up on their hind legs looking at people." She said: "The rats take up a lot of space, and we have to have somewhere to ...