Here's everything to know about roof rats, from how to tell if you have them to what attracts them to how to keep them out of your yard and house.

An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being "one of the ...

African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

(The single rat in the study was found in Zaira, a community that's against logging, Lavery says.) The newfound giant rat perches on a tree trunk in an artist's imagining.

Non-profit APOPO is training African giant pouched rats to help in the global fight against the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade. Here, a rat on a lead searches for concealed wildlife ...

Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed.

A Gambian rat who was training to be a landmine detector arrived at the San Diego Zoo a few weeks ago. She's better suited to her new role as a rat ambassador.

A giant rat invasion is underway as oversized vermin are driven into people's homes by cold weather and flooding. Britons have been warned to keep an eye out for the rodents after an infestation ...

Resarchers feared the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Then they captured images of four of these creatures.

Rare coconut-cracking giant rat is endangered species The rare rat is considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.

Non-profit APOPO is training African giant pouched rats to help in the global fight against the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade. Here, a rat on a lead searches for concealed wildlife ...