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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

THE Foster family thought they were doing the right thing when they left their Blue Mountains home to sit out the bushfires ... That was until three year old Sienna woke up in the family tent one ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...