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 ...

The post The Australian Rat That Flips Cane Toads Before Eating Them appeared first on A-Z Animals. Rats are not always viewed in a positive light. Scientists are becoming increasingly aware, however, ...

The Australian authority that regulates pesticides has finally released its long-delayed review of the rodenticide poisons used by millions of Australians to combat rat and mice infestations. As ...

The post The Vanished Rabbit-Rat That Triggered Australia's Extinction Crisis appeared first on A-Z Animals. When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not ...

A team of wildlife management specialists, environmental toxicologists and geneticists at the Conservation and Biodiversity Research Center, Edith Cowan University, in Australia, has found that some ...

Residents are horrified by a plague of rats that has descended on a usually picturesque Queensland fishing town, leaving a foul smell as they die and decay on the beaches. Locals in Karumba, in The ...

When people think of rodents, they usually think of introduced species such as the black rat and house mouse. But Australia actually has around 54 native rodent species, which live in a vast range of ...

Rats are not always viewed in a positive light. Scientists are becoming increasingly aware, however, that the Australian water rat could play a vital role in keeping some invasive species in check in ...