A prominent tuft of spiny hair on the back, a white tail tip and three pairs of teats represent the unique set of characteristics describing a new genus of rat which has been discovered in the ...

Think the New York subway system is home to the biggest rats around? Think again. Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in the Papua New Guinea rainforest that measures 82 centimeters ...

A new species of mammal dubbed the hog-nosed rat has been discovered in a remote area of Indonesia, researchers say. The rat, which has features never before seen by science, was found in a ...

As rats go, this one is pretty cute. And until Tuesday, the world was oblivious to its existence. But thanks to the fieldwork of a research team from Australia, Indonesia and America the 250-gram ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Spending its days foraging among the roots of trees, the slender rat has long escaped the querulous gaze of scientists. But no longer: ...

It’s not the big ears, sharp teeth, or long legs that inspired the naming of this newly described species, but its long, pink, flat nose: Meet the Hog-nosed rat, Hyorhinomys stuempkei. Discovered on ...

SULAWESI ISLAND, Indonesia, Oct. 6 (UPI) --For the third time in three years, an international team of biologists working on a remote island in Indonesia have discovered a new species. The latest find ...

A new mammal species known as the slender root rat has been discovered on an Indonesian island by an Australian scientist and his colleagues. The rat is about 30 centimetres in length including its ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea. Measuring 82 centimeters (32.2 inches) from nose to tail and weighing around 1 ...

An international team of scientists has discovered a new species of wild rodent in a remote mountainous area of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. The creature had eluded discovery for many years by mainly ...

New rat species of the little known and rare genus Mindomys described: Three expeditions led an international research team with participation from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of ...