Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the Chinese market where the first outbreak was detected and found that ...

Neil McCarthy journeys deep into the remote hills of North East India where millions of rats are invading and decimating crops - as they do twice a century with the flowering of bamboo - leaving ...

By weight, they’re the second largest rat species in the world. (The largest by weight is the Sumatran bamboo rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis) which can weigh up to 3.9kg, or 8.6 pounds. Yes ...