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 ...

Conservation ecologist Mareshell Wauchope's favourite feature of the Australian bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is its smell. "Their odour is this beautiful, sort of smoky, almost tobacco-like scent, akin ...

It’s the latest potential conscript in a globally significant rewilding effort aimed at repelling destructive and ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...