Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year ...

RATS the size of cats have been causing mayhem in an Asda. The monster vermin have been filmed scuttling down the aisles to ...

The Vangunu giant rat, or Uromys vika is one of the world's ... researchers were able to set out traps and cameras to try and capture images of the species. They put out glass oil lamps filled ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

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 ...

He agreed the traps were "barbaric" but were always used as a last resort. Rome authorities tackle Colosseum rat infestation Fears giant rats are eroding seaside town's cliffs "But when you've got ...

Called the Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika), the critically endangered species lives on just one island in the South Pacific, where logging has decimated much of its forest habitat.

Between 2010 and 2015, Tyrone Lavery and his colleagues searched tree hollows and set up camera traps and aluminum boxes. They were trying to capture evidence of the Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika.