The Giant Rat Should Be Extinct, but New Photos Prove It's Alive
WEBDec 1, 2023 · Resarchers feared the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Then they captured images of four of these creatures.
See the First-Ever Photographs of a Rare Giant Rat That Lives …
WEBNov 29, 2023 · For the first time, scientists have photographed a large, elusive rat that’s on the brink of extinction. Called the Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika), the critically endangered species lives...
New species of giant rat discovered in crater of volcano in Papua …
WEBA Smithsonian Institution biologist, working with the Natural History Unit of the British Broadcasting Corp., has discovered a new species of giant rat on a film-making expedition to a remote rainforest in New Guinea.
Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time
WEBNov 29, 2023 · The rare giant rat is at least twice the size of a common rat, tree-dwelling and can chew through coconuts with its teeth. Dr. Tyrone Lavery. By Rebecca Carballo. Published Nov. 29, 2023...
Scientists Re-Discover Giant Rat Not Seen in 30+ Years
WEBMar 18, 2024 · At the team’s first campsite, a young boy tagging along on the expedition found a baby rat curled up at the base of a flowering Caryota palm. Close examination would reveal that it was a young Isabel giant rat, a species that hasn’t been seen by Western scientists in more than 30 years.
Giant 1.5-foot-long rat that can crack open coconuts …
WEBNov 24, 2023 · The first ever images of the Vangunu giant rat, an elusive rodent that can grow up to 1.5 feet long and is known from only a single specimen that fell out of a tree six years ago, have been...
Giant Rat That Fell From Sky Is New Species - National Geographic
WEBSep 26, 2017 · The coconut-eating rodent tumbled from a logged tree on the Solomon Islands, a new study says. For more than 20 years, people in the Solomon Islands have told scientists about huge rats that...
Giant Rat That Fell From the Sky Is a New Species
WEBSep 28, 2017 · A 9-meter (30-foot) tree was cut down, and a giant rat that was apparently living in the tree came crashing down with it. (Neither specimen survived the fall.) At least one mammalogist had been looking for a giant rat in the Solomon Islands since 2010.
This Newly Discovered Giant Rat Species Is So Huge It
WEBSep 28, 2017 · Its remains didn't match Uromys porculus, or neobritannicus, or any other species. It was, they concluded, a brand-new species - descendant of the first rodents that floated on natural rafts to the Solomon Islands, cousin to the long-lost emperor rat: Uromys vika, or the giant rat of Vangunu island.
This may be one of the last giant rats of Vangunu
WEBNov 27, 2023 · Researchers have discovered that four individuals of the Vangunu giant rat (Uromys vika) survive in the wild, but even they may soon disappear. The rodent lives in the tropical forests of its namesake island of Vangunu, part …
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