It has a nose like a cute little piglet's, ears that only a mother could love and teeth that would make Dracula run in fear: This odd-looking rodent captured researchers' attention when they ...

The silvery mole rat still has many mysteries to sink our teeth into. Reference: Gomes Rodrigues, Marangoni, Sumbera, Tafforeau, Wendelen & Viriot. 2011. Continuous dental replacement in a hyper ...

That hideous looking thing at the top of the page is an African Mole-rat, Heliophobius argenteocinereus, and it uses a system best described as an escalator.The teeth start low and at the back of ...

A newly discovered rat in Indonesia doesn't have any molars, making it the only known rodent in the world without back teeth. The long-snouted fuzzball has been dubbed Paucidentomys vermidax ...

Reports say the rats can grow up to 1.5 feet long – roughly the average size of a newborn baby. ... Ultra-rare, giant rat that cracks coconuts with its teeth caught on camera for first time.

Rat's teeth stumbled on by student could be our oldest living ancestors. Scientists can draw a direct line between the teeth and those in our own head. Andrew Griffin.

In March, Louisiana officials announced a deal to free an unlikely folk hero and fugitive: Neuty the swamp rat. His fellow species members may not be so lucky. In 2020, New Orleans couple Myra and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, a giant, inflatable rat with beady eyes, sharp teeth and a pustule-covered belly has loomed over union protests, drawing attention to various labor disputes.

An ultra-rare super rodent that could grow to the size of a baby and crack coconuts with its teeth has been captured on camera for the first time. The Vangunu giant rat, or Uromys vika is one of ...