Australia is home to many extraordinary creatures, from Antarctic emperor penguins washing ashore to thelargest great white ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with unconfirmed sightings suggesting it may still exist. A fascinating native Australian ...

Giant lizards called heath goannas could ... Camera trap footage revealed which scavenging animal had found the rat, and how quickly. Native Australian scavengers ate more of the dead rats ...

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

The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct ... roof or ship rat and is found throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas. A typical adult weighs about 150 grams.

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 ...

Giant rat’s tail grass, originally from South Africa, poses a major threat to agriculture and natural ecosystems in Australia. It is a tough, unpalatable species that rapidly outcompetes native ...

the unusual creature was something like a monster with the appearance of a giant rat. Except it wasn't a rat, but a young kangaroo brought from Australia by Indigenous soldier William Charles ...