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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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