It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, recently retired from her job of detecting tuberculosis cases medical tests had missed. At her ...

The skull of a black rat (right) compared with a fairly complete skull of one of Timor's other extinct giant rats (left). The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct rats ...

Adding to this list of oversized wonders, construction workers in Queensland recently made an astonishing discovery: a giant ...

Horror as major UK city invaded by monster rats 'the size of CATS' leaping out of bins ...

No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

A giant kangaroo rat, rescued and safely released by a permit-holder during a PG&E pipeline excavation project. Giant kangaroo rats are native to dry habitats in CA and adapted to short droughts ...

ResQ in Hull will serve as the artistic hub for the upcoming sculpture trail, providing a spacious studio and storage facility for the project's forty five giant rat sculptures. Clare Huby ...