Three African giant pouched rats, trained to detect landmines, tuberculosis, and trafficked wildlife, have joined a ...

Researchers 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. The ...

Zoo visitors can welcome the three new African giant pouched rats at the zoo during a welcome party, which includes ...

People generally fall into one of two camps: rats are cute… or rats are decidedly not cute. But everyone should be able to agree that photos of an extremely rare giant rat are pretty fascinating. The ...

Rodents may not be for everyone, but the Sacramento Zoo hopes to make a case for why its latest arrivals earned their ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Between 2010 and 2015, Tyrone Lavery and his colleagues searched tree hollows and set up camera traps ...

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 demonstrated the ...

The Sacramento Zoo has welcomed its newest residents: three African giant pouched rats. These highly trained animals can ...

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 trees of the forest, ...