A half-meter mouse may bite the coconut shell

Scientists found that one of the world's largest mice could bite a coconut shell with teeth.

The mouse named Uromys vika is half a meter long and weighs a kilogram. They live at a height of about 10 meters above the trees in Solomon Islands in the southern Pacific, Long Room today reported.

The 47 cm long mouse was found by Dr. Tyrone Lavery.(Photo: Mogaz News).

However, researchers have only found one mouse and it died shortly after being arrested. Animals are four times longer than black rats in the UK.

"The new mouse Uromys vika is quite special. They are a large rat. This is the first mouse discovered in 80 years from the Solomons Islands. This rat is too hard to find," said Dr. Tyrone Lavery at Field Museum in Chicago, USA, who found the mouse said.

The mouse was caught with brown fur, wide hind feet and curved claws, 47 cm long from nose to tail. Its furry tail is as long as its body. It lives on kapuchu tree in Vangunu island.

Researchers have been suspicious of the existence of this rat for at least two decades and the islanders often circulate the story of how they can separate coconut shells. Although the story has not yet been confirmed, there is evidence that the mouse can enter into a very thick shelled fruit called ngali by biting small round holes.