According to professor John Woinarski, the species' disappearance means Australia has lost 39 land mammal species since 1788, ...

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse ...

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 ...

A single pregnant female, which traveled aboard a coconut palm for part of her journey from Asia, could have been the Founding Mother of Australia’s rodents, one scientist suggests. Most of the rats ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. By day, the shrubby clifftops of North ...

Sugar cane fields in Australia’s northern Queensland are overrun with rats, threatening one of the region’s most valuable crops. The infestation follows a period of heavy rain which boosted plant ...

Rats have been caught on camera in the kitchen of a popular Adelaide pub with the owner blaming the city’s “massive rodent ...

Ms Brademann is currently monitoring rakali at Bush Heritage Australia's Scottsdale Reserve, south of Canberra. "As a rakali fanatic myself, I wasn't sure the Australian public would respond to the ...

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 ...