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

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 ...

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 researchers have discovered new ...

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 ...

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 ...