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.

"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 ...

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 ...