It's one thing to get a goldfish because your daughter begs for one. It's quite another to end up with a hundred-pound rodent who has more than 2,700 Twitter followers. Caplin Rous is a capybara.

As of 2021, the American Society of Mammalogists has recognized 2,277 different species of rodents, making up 35% to 40% of all mammal species on the planet, depending on which authority you talk to.

An around-the-clock search continues for a capybara that escaped a zoo four days ago. Cinnamon fled her enclosure in Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Telford on Friday and initially entered woodland ...

The rich label the rodents “pests,” but are these “masters of the grasses” invaders or merely “reappropriating” what is theirs? Gated communities and golf courses are located on vulnerable wetlands ...

The capybara is the largest living rodent, native to South America. The capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests, and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in ...

As someone who loves animals, I often watch dozens of animal videos each time I scroll on social media. That’s how I discovered capybaras, and after seeing numerous short-form videos on these ...

In the back of a real estate office building in what is known as America's oldest city, capybaras are crawling into visitors' laps, munching on corn on the cob and hunting for scratches from humans at ...