Tales of a "Giant Woolly Rat" have been told for decades, yet no scientist had ever confirmed Mallomys istapantap was alive.

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

The subalpine woolly rat, measuring a whopping 2.7ft in length, has been discovered in the highlands of Papua New Guinea - and has been caught on camera for the first time ...

František Vejmělka New Guinean Woolly rats are some of the largest murine rodents in the world - and are triple the size of the average rodent in the UK or US. Despite its total length of 85cm ...

A newly released video shows the first-ever footage of the subalpine woolly rat, one of the world’s largest rodents, captured ...

An elusive nocturnal beast of a rodent that lives high in the mountains has been filmed and photographed for the first time, ...

After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than ... according to the World Health Organization. In Tanzania and Ethiopia alone, over 50,000 ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books ... He also was acknowledged by the Guinness World Records. Since August 2021, Ronin has detected 109 landmines and 15 items ...

That’s according to both APOPO, the charity that trained the African giant pouched rat, and the Guinness Book of World Records, which declared Ronin the new record holder. He’s currently ...