It would be an exterminator’s worst nightmare: A 1,545-pound rodent with a voracious appetite and big teeth. Resembling a guinea pig grown to the size of a buffalo, the animal lived millions of years ...

A new study found that primeval rodents, which were estimated to be the size of bison, were closer to modern-day ponies. By Jack Tamisiea Modern rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing less ...

It's one thing to get a goldfish because your daughter begs for one. It's quite another to end up with a hundred-pound rodent who has more than 2,700 Twitter followers. Caplin Rous is a capybara.

You still have to be a certain height to ride this ride, but everyone’s reduced to the same size on Disney World’s new “Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure.” The attraction “shrinks” riders down to ...

"Rodents of Unusual Size" takes its name from the giant killer ratlike creatures depicted in the fairy tale "The Princess Bride." But the documentary depicts real 20-pound-plus rodents, called nutria, ...

With “Rodents of Unusual Size,” directors Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer have a heck of a story to tell charting the destructive impact that nutria, the furry, orange-toothed critters ...

A woman has captured the internet’s attention for the creative way she measures the size of New York City’s rampant rats. On 12 August, the city’s first Anti-Rat Day of Action was held in Harlem as ...