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  • Rare giant rat that can grow to the size of a baby and chew through coconuts caught on camera for first time

    11/29/2023 12:48:00 PM PST · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    CBS News ^ | NOVEMBER 29, 2023 / 9:51 AM EST | BY LI COHEN
    An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being "one of the world's rarest rodents" according to the University of Melbourne, is found in just one isolated spot throughout the world – the island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands. The species was only first identified by a single animal discovered in 2017, but recently, university researchers said that after placing out glass oil lamps filled with sesame oil, they captured 95 images of four different...