Conservation ecologist Mareshell Wauchope's favourite feature of the Australian bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is its smell. "Their odour is this beautiful, sort of smoky, almost tobacco-like scent, akin ...

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 ...

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 ...