Gary Shteyngart on the rodent winning hearts. Plus: putting a skeptic in charge of science; Michael Crichton’s lessons in ...

This is the shocking moment a woman was attacked by a capybara while swimming in Colombia. Astonishing video shows how a paddle with the huge rodent took a sinister turn when it launched itself at ...

Large numbers of capybaras, a giant rodent native to South America, have been invading a luxury gated community in Argentina, highlighting the country’s controversial environmental and social ...