Mammalogists went to the Solomon Islands in search of a giant rat and monkey-faced bat -- and ended up playing a role in fostering peace between the Kwaio people of Malaita and the Western world. A ...

The Kwaio people of the Solomon Islands have been working with scientists to protect their homeland from resource extraction and development. But violent clashes in 1927 between the Kwaio and the ...

Tyrone Lavery, postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, traveled nearly 8,000 miles to find two species--a giant rat and a monkey-faced bat--in Malaita, one of the Solomon Islands' ...