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 single pregnant female, which traveled aboard a coconut palm for part of her journey from Asia, could have been the Founding Mother of Australia’s rodents, one scientist suggests. Most of the rats ...

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 ...

Residents are horrified by a plague of rats that has descended on a usually picturesque Queensland fishing town, leaving a foul smell as they die and decay on the beaches. Locals in Karumba, in The ...

Emma Gray was among the first to notice signs of the impending plague. A biological researcher, Gray went to northwest Queensland in Australia in June to study one mammal but unexpectedly ended up ...

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 — ...

Pritchard, centre, marching past the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne with former comrades on Anzac Day - Courtesy of Rats of Tobruk Association Tom Pritchard, who has died aged 102, was believed to ...