Researchers in the Solomon Islands have photographed the first-ever images of a giant 1.5-foot-long rat known as the Vungunu ...

"There are only eight known species of native rat from the Solomon Islands, and looking at the ... to nibble into nuts and coconuts. These giant-sized but long-hidden creatures are likely to ...

an island in the Solomon Islands, in hopes of capturing photos of the Vangunu giant rat for the first time. And they were successful, according to a study published Nov. 20 in the journal Ecology ...

Resarchers had long feared that the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Recently, researchers finally captured images of four of these creatures.

The Solomon Islands government recently gave a company ... Vika is the existing Indigenous epithet for the giant rats. Unlike some invasive rats that destroy island ecosystems, the Vangunu giant ...