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.

"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 ...

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 ...