A prominent tuft of spiny hair on the back, a white tail tip and three pairs of teats represent the unique set of characteristics describing a new genus of rat which has been discovered in the ...

In 2005, researchers described what they believed to be a new family, genus, and species of rodent. It was a delightfully ...

A new genus and species has been discovered on a remote, mountainous island in Indonesia. This new discovery is the third new genus described by this group of scientists since 2012, and identifies a ...

Spending its days foraging among the roots of trees, the slender rat has long escaped the querulous gaze of scientists. But no longer: an international research team discovered the rat, which goes by ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown mammal, the hog-nosed rat, with features that have not been seen by scientists before. Hyorhinomys stuempkei is a species of mammal previously ...

SULAWESI ISLAND, Indonesia, Oct. 6 (UPI) --For the third time in three years, an international team of biologists working on a remote island in Indonesia have discovered a new species. The latest find ...

An international team of scientists has discovered a new species of wild rodent in a remote mountainous area of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. The creature had eluded discovery for many years by mainly ...

A new mammal species known as the slender root rat has been discovered on an Indonesian island by an Australian scientist and his colleagues. The rat is about 30 centimetres in length including its ...

In Photo: A mossy forest on Mount Bali—it hosts a diverse group of endemic mammals. BATS and rodents, more commonly called rats, mouse or mice, are “unwelcomed” guests in the city. In the wild, ...