An introduced black rat scratches through leaf litter, looking for food. Nearby, a native water rat watches on, its beady eyes shining. The native rat pounces out from the shadows, sending the invader ...

KARUMBA, Australia - Residents of a small Australian coastal town are dealing with thousands of dead and dying rats washing up on area beaches, according to reports. The rats have recently descended ...

After tens of thousands of votes, countless astonishing facts and passionate discussions on ABC Radio National, Australia has spoken - the rakali has been crowned Australia’s Most Underrated Native ...

It has long been trumpeted that climate change will spur mass extinctions of flora and fauna, due to both the effects of climate change and the inability of evolution (which only takes place over many ...

Australia’s native rats and mice are as worthy of love and attention as the continent’s better-known marsupials. Here, we list some of our favourites. After drenching rains, outback Australia’s dunes ...

Emma Gray was among the first to notice signs of the impending plague. A biological researcher, Gray went to northwest Queensland in Australia in June to study one mammal but unexpectedly ended up ...

A plague of rats is creating havoc in Karumba, a small coastal town in Queensland, Australia, where hordes of rodents are chewing on electrical wires and otherwise eating everything they can find — ...

An introduced black rat scratches through leaf litter, looking for food. Nearby, a native water rat watches on, its beady eyes shining. The native rat pounces out from the shadows, sending the invader ...