The distinctive black-footed tree rat was spotted by chance last year on a seasonal monitoring trip when a researcher went on night time stroll. Months of camera footage have now confirmed its ...

Lophiomys imhausi, also known as the crested rat, the maned rat, and the African crested rat, is a deadly rarity says Aoife ...

"When I first met with the people from Vangunu Island in the Solomons, they told me about a rat native to the island that they called vika, which lived in the trees," said Tyrone Lavery ...

Once thought extinct, the world's rarest insect – nicknamed the 'tree lobster' – was rediscovered on a remote sea stack.