The world's second-biggest rat species — a gargantuan woolly beast — was caught on camera in the mountains of New Guinea.

Archaeologists with The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered fossils of seven giant ... large modern rat would be about half a kilo." The work is part of the From Sunda to Sahul ...

Archaeologists from the Australian National University discovered the fossils of a new, nightmarish giant rat that’s roughly ... The “From Sunda to Sahul” project is hoping to understand ...

A species of giant rat, the size of a small terrier, has been documented in New Guinea's highlands for the first time.

After a morning spent in consultation with tour guides in Legazpi, Boy takes me on a trip around the side of the mountain ... stands of coconut palms and giant ferns, ringed betel nut trees ...

A biologist has discovered a new species of giant rat on a filmmaking expedition to ... trapping the creatures inside a “lost world” of mountain rainforests probably rarely visited by humans.

The first ever images of the Vangunu giant rat, an elusive rodent that ... You may like 33-inch-long 'woolly' mountain rat caught on camera for first time ever Elusive colossal squid finally ...

Two new undocumented mammals – a pygmy possum and a giant rat – have been found in the jungles of a remote mountain range in Indonesia’s Papua province, according to a conservation group.

some of the rat bones have cut and burn marks, which implies they were used as a food source by the island’s early inhabitants. Scientists are still trying to figure out why the giant rats went ...