Conservationists hope a smelly plan to reintroduce Australian bush rats into a nature reserve in Sydney this weekend could ...

The bubonic plague outbreak in 1900, linked to rat-borne fleas, prompted sweeping sanitation reforms across Sydney, including the demolition of slum housing in areas such as The Rocks and Millers ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. By day, the shrubby clifftops of North ...

A critically endangered critter has been sighted on a farm in the middle of nowhere. The central rock rat is one of Australia's rarest animals, and experts feared it had gone totally extinct a few ...

Months after the local shire's council discussed what it dubbed a "Rat Plague," thousands of rats are creating havoc in a small town on the coast... A plague of rats is creating havoc in Karumba, a ...

A plague of rats is creating havoc in Karumba, a small coastal town in Queensland, Australia, where hordes of rodents are chewing on electrical wires and otherwise eating everything they can find — ...