In the end, the team captured 95 images of four individual Vangunu giant rats—three females and one male. All the photos were taken at night, with most centered around midnight.

African giant pouched rats can detect landmines and diseases. Now some have been trained to ferret out elephant ivory, pangolin scales and more.

They have gone, or so it seems. The biggest rat eradication programme ever undertaken appears to have rid South Georgia island in the South Atlantic of its pest problem. A survey of the British ...

The biggest rat that Bobby Corrigan, a world-renowned rat expert, said he’s ever heard of was a 1.87-pound rat in Missouri. He jokes that he carries a $500 check to give anyone who finds a two ...