Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant African rats may soon be the key to fighting illegal wildlife trafficking. New research from nonprofit APOPO, published Oct.

Thanks to a dedicated group of scientists training them for the job, giant rats are taking down the illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania. Rats are often seen as disease-carrying pests to avoid at all ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

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 ...

Eagerly sniffing, Baraka dashes across a stubble field. He can't see very well, but his sense of smell is extremely well-developed. Because Baraka, a giant hamster rat with an important job to do: ...

From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia ...

An ultra-rare super rodent that could grow to the size of a baby and crack coconuts with its teeth has been captured on camera for the first time. The Vangunu giant rat, or Uromys vika is one of the ...

A 22-inch rat was found at a residence in England. Eston Ward Councilors David Taylor and Stephen Martin posted about the alarming discovery, made in a neighborhood in North Yorkshire, on Facebook on ...

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 identify ...