The remains of a giant rat, estimated to weigh about a ton, was discovered in Uruguay proving that mammoth rodent once roamed the face of the earth some four million years ago. Archaeologists said they have unearthed the half-meter long skull of the giant prehistoric rat, which by any standard, is bigger than a bull, in a chunk of rock in Rio de La Plata on the coast of Uruguay.

A mayor in the Philippines' financial capital on Thursday issued a threat to dump the city's garbage in front of the Metro Manila Development Authority, the agency tasked to dispose trash of the metropolis. An angry Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay told the MMDA to solve Metro Manila's garbage or its office would have its own stinking problem.

Firefighters trying to put out a massive fire at an apartment in southeastern Idaho were amazed to see a live albino rat huddled in a charred cage. After being rescued from fire, Halo the rat received oxygen with a special cone-shaped animal resuscitation mask. Firefighter Kirby Jonas, who rescued Halo, said he was pretty sure that anything in the cage could not have survived the flames by any chance.

An eight-year-old two headed albino rat snake at an aquarium in St. Louis has died. The reptile, named "We" was not only unique in having two heads and a rare light brown color but it also amazed scientists by its long life-span. Most two-headed snakes perish within a week or two of their birth. According to We's caretaker, Leonard Sonnenschein, more than a million people have seen the reptile since the World Aquarium acquired it in 1999.

A real estate agent and her prospective clients literally ran out of one the houses in Janesville, Wisconsin when they found a homeowner's two-week old dead body in the bedroom. Linda Chabucos-Galow, a real estate agent with Shorewest, was standing in the dining room when her clients Justin and Colleen McKeen decide to check out a new house Monday night.