PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is welcoming a pair of giant rodents known for their size, smarts and sense of smell. Now, they are ready to be seen by visitors at the zoo, officials announced ...

There’s an animal in my freezer that looks like a giant rat. It was killed because it was acting oddly and because, well, giant rat = heebie-jeebies. But mostly, it was dispatched because we’d decided ...

Fittingly for a movie borrowing its title from the 1987 fairy tale comedy "The Princess Bride," the nutria documentary "Rodents of Unusual Size" starts with a once-upon-a-time. Whether it concludes ...

A 22-inch rat was found at a residence in England. Eston Ward Councilors David Taylor and Stephen Martin posted about the alarming discovery, made in a neighborhood in North Yorkshire, on Facebook on ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Big animals are scary. But what if they were even bigger? Sharks the size of ships, apes that could scale buildings, rats of unusual size - not only are they frightening to think about, they were once ...

With their wrinkly skin and protruding front teeth, naked mole rats are some of the strangest looking creatures in the animal kingdom. Now, a new study has revealed that the weird animals also have ...