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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 ...

Twenty-four Australian bush rats will be reintroduced into an urban nature reserve in Sydney this weekend. Half of the rats will be left in areas where pieces of towel, carrying their individual musk, ...

KARUMBA, Australia - Residents of a small Australian coastal town are dealing with thousands of dead and dying rats washing up on area beaches, according to reports. The rats have recently descended ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rats thrive among overflowing bins, in illegal waste dumping and sewage. Source: Nathaly Haeran/Supplied/Facebook Australian pest ...

Rat baits could soon be restricted to licensed operators, after a change in regulations from the Australian Pesticides and ...

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 — ...