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 think that rodents are typically tiny in size and that beavers are gigantic when compared to other members of the rodent family, then perhaps you haven’t yet met the largest rodent of them all ...

A female capybara has arrived at a Florida zoo as part of a breeding program to bolster the population of the large South American rodents.Iyari, a 10-month-old capybara, went to the Palm Beach Zoo & ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Animal lovers now have a place to hang out with the “it” animals of the moment — big furry rodents. In the back of a real estate office building in what is known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephanie Angel, left, shows off an armadillo to visitors at the Capybara Cafe in St. Augustine, Fla., March 14, 2025. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Animal lovers now have a place to hang out with the “it” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Animal lovers now ...