The most popular posts on r/animalid are exotic lizards and rare birds – but it’s the haziest trail cam screenshots that feel the most dangerous, the most spectacular ...

In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats. In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat on each side. They ...

Brown rats are generally larger and more aggressive than black rats. In many parts of the world, they displace black rats. At archaeological sites around the world, a certain subset of remains is ...

Wyoming isn’t immune to a rat invasion like the infestation taking place in Boise that one exterminator called “a nuclear bomb of rats.” Spikes in ...

A Texas rodent threatened by habitat loss may be one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Texas ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare new species of rat — up to four times the size of the rodents that populate American ...

If you have a fear of abnormally large rodents, you might want to look away now. A scientist has discovered a whopping species of rat that measures more than 2.5 feet long – three times the size of a ...

For more than 20 years, people in the Solomon Islands have told scientists about huge rats that live in the treetops. But no one could prove the creature actually existed—until November 2015, when ...