An elusive rodent considered to be a "sensitive species," has been spotted on a West Virginia trail in the Allegheny mountains. Officials of Monongahela National Forest, a unit of the U.S. Department ...

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 world ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little is commonly known about it other than its connection to rodents. Virginia ...

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 ...

The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive rat-like rodent — recommending that people try to turn it into a delicacy.

Australia can lay claim to two new species of native rodent thanks to a study from The Australian National University (ANU). The aptly named delicate mouse was previously thought to be a single ...