A rat king, or roi-de-rats if you want to get all classy and French about it, ... The largest known specimen is a mummified 32-rat snarl, on display at the Mauritianum museum in Altenburg, ...

Andrei Miljutin of the Natural History Museum at the University of Tartu, who had documented a previous encounter with a rat king in Estonia, agreed to take the specimen. He said two of the 13 ...

That "rat king" is now part of a collection at the University of Tartu Museum of Zoology. Still, there seems to be at least one more sighting this year near Stavropol, Russia. Since the rats in a "rat ...