In this paper, we study the dynamics of a non-autonomous semilinear degenerate parabolic equation on R N driven by an unbounded additive noise. The nonlinearity has (p, q)-exponent growth and the degeneracy means that the diffusion coefficient σ is unbounded and allowed to vanish at some points. Firstly we prove the existence of pullback attractor in L 2 (R N) by using a compact embedding of the weighted Sobolev space. Secondly we establish the higher-attraction of the pullback attractor in L δ (R N), which implies that the cocycle is absorbing in L δ (R N) after a translation by the complete orbit, for arbitrary δ ∈ [2, ∞). Thirdly we verify that the derived L 2-pullback attractor is in fact a compact attractor in L p (R N) ∩ L q (R N) ∩ D 1,2 0 (R N , σ), mainly by means of the estimate of difference of solutions instead of the usual truncation method.