According to the press release, this "rare giant rat is at least twice the size of a common rat, is tree-dwelling and reportedly can chew through coconuts with its teeth." "The rodents were ...

Disease ridden rat-like creatures with bright orange teeth are spreading panic in California as their population explodes. Nearly 1,000 nutria – an up to 4ft vector of tuberculosis – have been ...

The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst with teeth. Naked mole rats are rodents ...

lives among the trees and survives on nuts that it cracks open with its teeth. The Solomons are already home to eight other species of rat, but this is the first new discovery in 80 years.

A large aquatic rodent with bright orange teeth is causing environmental destruction ... Nutria — which resemble a cross between a beaver and an over-sized rat — can grow to be two feet ...