They are giant African pouch rats; an animal that has a sense of smell ... The research comes at a critical time for ...

A rare mammal has been discovered living in Western Australia (WA) decades after it was thought to have been wiped out of the region. The distinctive black-footed tree rat was spotted by chance ...

Located about 1,800km (1,100 miles) off the coast of Australia, the chain of islands ... Dr Lavery failed to turn up any evidence of the big rat, apart from large droppings.

For years, brush-tailed bettongs, a critically endangered marsupial native to Australia, have lived on isolated nature reserves in Australia, but a new program reintroducing them back to the wild ...

This is the moment a rat was captured trying to break into a restaurant in Argentina on November 26. Thankfully, it couldn't find an opening.