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.

If you know a child who has recently embraced the capybara craze online, you may be looking for the season's hottest rodent-inspired gifts.

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 ...

A capybara—the world’s largest rodent — is on the loose after escaping from a UK zoo. The public is urged not to approach it. Cinnamon, the capybara, has been on the run for four days since managing ...

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 cafe has the traditional staples – coffee, muffins, cookies, bottled water and packaged chips. But the lobby is also full of small and large stuffed capybaras, paintings of capybaras, and mugs and ...

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 ...