A neighborhood group has successfully raised alarms about a suspected rat infestation at a Dollar Tree location in Queens, New York, leading to the store’s temporary closure. Residents of Ozone Park, ...

A mysterious tree-dwelling rat that is three times the size of the common rat has been captured in photographs for the first time ever. A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne and ...

An 18-inch rat that lives in trees and is able to open coconuts with its teeth has been discovered in the Solomon Islands. The rat, known as Uromys vika, has been particularly hard to find, becoming ...

A Louisiana family has shared shocking footage of the unwanted guest they discovered hiding in their Christmas tree. The holiday season may be about bringing people together but that concept ended up ...

Discover Uromys vika, a newly identified rat from the Solomon Islands that's a critically endangered species. Learn more about this unique find. This is an illustration of the new species, Uromys vika ...

The Solomon Islands—a nation comprised of nearly one thousand islands located northeast of Australia, between Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea—is an impressive corner of the globe. Dense, lush rainforest ...

The rat tree is gone. Reduced to a mere hollowed out stump sitting in the 1900 block of North Mozart. Early on Monday morning, a crew from the city Bureau of Forestry pulled up in front of Jennifer ...

A species of rat coats itself in deadly toxin that it obtains by gnawing on a poisonous tree, scientists have discovered. The Crested Rat - Lophiomys imhausi - from East Africa is the first mammal ...