Giant 33.5-Inch-Long Woolly Rat Photographed For The First Time Ever

Giant 'rat as big as a cat' with sharp claws and incisors caught on camera

The colossal species of rat, known as the subalpine woolly rat, has been discovered in Papua New Guinea and is more than 2.5ft long, with sharp incisors

Giant 33.5-Inch-Long Woolly Rat Photographed For The First Time Ever

rat-face It took six months of searching on the island of New Guinea, but the gigantic Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap) has finally been caught on camera. 30 years after it was last recorded with just a scientific description, Frantisek Vejmelka, a Czech doctoral candidate from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of South Bohemia, became the first person ever to scientifically document the creature. I…

Terrifying new 2.5ft long giant rat as big as a cat discovered by stunned scientist - The Mirror

The subalpine woolly rat, measuring a whopping 2.7ft in length, has been discovered in the highlands of Papua New Guinea - and has been caught on camera for the first time

Meet The Subalpine Woolly Rat, Photographed And Documented In The Wild For The First Time

This is the largest Sahulian rodent!

It had disappeared from radars for almost 40 years. First identified in 1989 from museum specimens, the subalpine woolly rat (Mallomys istapantap) had since remained a zoological ghost. No biologist had ever been able to observe it alive, let alone film it. Until today. In a new published study [...]