Murine rodents are a large group of "Old World" rats and mice that comprises over 500 species, per Animal Diversity Web. As ...

A six-month expedition to the tropical island of New Guinea has led to a remarkable discovery by a young Czech doctoral ...

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

The world's second-biggest rat species — a gargantuan woolly beast — was caught on camera in the mountains of New Guinea.

It took six months of searching on the island of New Guinea, but the gigantic Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap) has ...

What's believed to be the largest-ever toad recorded was captured in Australia. It was a cane toad, an invasive species known for ... They just let a snake or a rat try to bite them, get a ...

(To save endangered species, Joel Sartore takes their ... Environment and Heritage replaced the name of the water rat, Australia’s largest rodent, to the rakali, a name taken from the Murray ...

The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed ... had insisted a critically endangered giant rat that could chew through coconuts ...