Giant Rats

The study demonstrated that the giant rats successfully detected samples of elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales and African hardwood.

In a unique approach, African ports are employing trained giant pouched rats to sniff out illegal wildlife goods such as ivory and pangolin scales. This effort, led by APOPO, aims to aid customs officials in identifying smuggled items from endangered species. Agile and cost-effective, these rats are trained to detect specific scents in mock warehou...

A McDonald's customer found rat excrement in his burger taken from a drive-thru outlet. The burger giant was ordered to pay fines of Rs 4.87 crore.

A family in Eufaula area of Albama in United States found an unusual visitor to their home on Saturday. They found a slithery intruder inside the toilet of their home, and it turned out to be a Gray Rat Snake.

New York - the city that never sleeps, the city of lights, of the Empire State Building... and rats. Rats in New York City are widespread, but even seasoned New Yorkers would do a double take at the sight of this gigantic rodent.

Workers clearing the underground drainage system in Mexico City were shocked to discover a gigantic rat there.

Since 1997, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Tanzania has been training African giant pouched rats to detect two things: landmines and tuberculosis. These trained rats are nicknamed 'HeroRats'.

Logan Paul returned to YouTube on Sunday by, Jesus-like, emerging from a cave into the sunlight. He wore a giant fake beard and tattered jeans, as epic movie trailer music played over his first vlog in weeks.

In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats.

Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal wildlife trophies being smuggled out of African ports.

A Facebook user from Australia recently uploaded either the most creepy or the coolest video, depending on how you take it. With over 20 million views and counting, it shows a giant Huntsman spider dragging around his dinner, a mouse. Ugh!

With no Pied Piper to help it out, the Railways has little choice left but to hire "contract killers" to eliminate hundreds of giant rodents that have dug tunnels under the platforms of the British-era Charbagh railway station in Lucknow.

Archaeologists with the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered fossils of seven giant rat species on East Timor in Southeast Asia with the largest up to 10 times the size of modern rats.

Scientists have discovered new species of fanged frog, grunting fish and a giant rat, probably the biggest in the world.

The study demonstrated that the giant rats successfully detected samples of elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales and African hardwood.

In a unique approach, African ports are employing trained giant pouched rats to sniff out illegal wildlife goods such as ivory and pangolin scales. This effort, led by APOPO, aims to aid customs officials in identifying smuggled items from endangered species. Agile and cost-effective, these rats are trained to detect specific scents in mock warehou...

A McDonald's customer found rat excrement in his burger taken from a drive-thru outlet. The burger giant was ordered to pay fines of Rs 4.87 crore.

A family in Eufaula area of Albama in United States found an unusual visitor to their home on Saturday. They found a slithery intruder inside the toilet of their home, and it turned out to be a Gray Rat Snake.

New York - the city that never sleeps, the city of lights, of the Empire State Building... and rats. Rats in New York City are widespread, but even seasoned New Yorkers would do a double take at the sight of this gigantic rodent.

Workers clearing the underground drainage system in Mexico City were shocked to discover a gigantic rat there.

Since 1997, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Tanzania has been training African giant pouched rats to detect two things: landmines and tuberculosis. These trained rats are nicknamed 'HeroRats'.

Logan Paul returned to YouTube on Sunday by, Jesus-like, emerging from a cave into the sunlight. He wore a giant fake beard and tattered jeans, as epic movie trailer music played over his first vlog in weeks.

In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats.

Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal wildlife trophies being smuggled out of African ports.

A Facebook user from Australia recently uploaded either the most creepy or the coolest video, depending on how you take it. With over 20 million views and counting, it shows a giant Huntsman spider dragging around his dinner, a mouse. Ugh!

With no Pied Piper to help it out, the Railways has little choice left but to hire "contract killers" to eliminate hundreds of giant rodents that have dug tunnels under the platforms of the British-era Charbagh railway station in Lucknow.

Archaeologists with the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered fossils of seven giant rat species on East Timor in Southeast Asia with the largest up to 10 times the size of modern rats.

Scientists have discovered new species of fanged frog, grunting fish and a giant rat, probably the biggest in the world.