A new giant species of rat has been discovered on the Manus Island in the South Pacific.
This giant rodent, despite its size and heft, has been lurking there for thousands of years, according to scientists, and has only been discovered recently.
Researchers have published a new study unveiling Rattus detentus in the Journal of Mammalogy ,named after the Latin word for “detained”.
This is because Australia is sending asylum seekers to detention camps on the Papua New Guinean island for processing, and is also a reference to the long time that the rat has been living there itself.
read more This giant rodent, despite its size and heft, has been lurking there for thousands of years, according to scientists, and has only been discovered recently.
Researchers have published a new study unveiling Rattus detentus in the Journal of Mammalogy ,named after the Latin word for “detained”.
This is because Australia is sending asylum seekers to detention camps on the Papua New Guinean island for processing, and is also a reference to the long time that the rat has been living there itself.
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