A six-month expedition to the tropical island of New Guinea has led to a remarkable discovery by a young Czech doctoral candidate from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the ...

A capybara is on the loose after escaping from a zoo, and staff are calling for the public's help tracking it down. The rodent, called Samba, bust out of her temporary enclosure just a day after ...

Trail cameras recorded nocturnal subalpine woolly rats roaming around in search of plants to eat. Czech Academy of Sciences The subalpine woolly rat lives high in the mountains of New Guinea, where it ...

LONDON -- Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one that ...

A little while back, I met a capybara, the world’s largest rodent, for a coffee-and-carrot date at a café in Tokyo. This has become a ritual when I visit the city. I sat on a couch next to Pisuke, who ...