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.

They were trying to capture evidence of the Vangunu giant rat, Uromys vika. Stretching about 18 inches long with its tail, the vika's body is about the size of a guinea pig. It's been known to eat ...

These giant-sized but long-hidden creatures are ... find additional support for the Zaira Conservation Area, on Vangunu, where the rat lives." The study has been published in the Journal of ...