In addition to having local hunters as his guides, Vejmělka set up a camera trap on a fallen log over a stream in a dense ...

An elusive nocturnal beast of a rodent that lives high in the mountains has been filmed and photographed for the first time, ...

A man who baited birds of prey with pheasants coated in rat poison has been ordered to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work.

Rats, which can transmit deadly diseases, seem to have proliferated everywhere, unchecked. Is the anthropocene a mere prelude ...

Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on ...

Tales of a "Giant Woolly Rat" have been told for decades, yet no scientist had ever confirmed Mallomys istapantap was alive.

Consider why rats may be your next choice for a pet. First off, pet rats are the domesticated form of Rattus norvegicus, the ...

A gargantuan rat species, stretching over 2.5 feet in ... Previously, this colossal rodent - known to science as Mallomys istapantap - was merely recognised from scant museum records, originally ...

A rat sparked panic when it darted into a dress shop causing women to flee in fear. CCTV footage shows the rodent scurrying across the floor in Zhejiang, China. The shopkeeper quickly stepped outside ...

Until now, the subalpine woolly rat (Mallomys istapantap) has been known to science only from a handful of museum specimens. First described in 1989 based on historical museum material ...

A newly released video shows the first-ever footage of the subalpine woolly rat, one of the world’s largest rodents, captured ...