As the largest rodent ever in North America, the giant beaver also would have existed with the first people ever to settle in ...

A young woman has been attacked by a capybara, known as the world's largest rodent, while swimming in a lake. The terrifying ordeal took place in Ciénaga, in the north of Colombia. The victim had ...

The fossilized skull of the largest rodent ever recorded has been described by scientists for the first time. The remains of the one-ton beast, found in Uruguay, indicate that it would have been ...

The capybara, also known as a carpincho or chiguire, is the world's largest rodent, measuring up to 1.35 meters (4 feet four inches) in length and weighing up to 80 kilograms (176 pounds).

Capybaras, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, prove rodents of unusual size aren’t just fiction. Native to South America, capybaras are the largest rodents in the world. They grow as long as 4.5 feet ...

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended on Friday ...