In the battle of the rats, our humble Aussie bush rat has successfully pushed out and held off the much larger black rat at North Head Sanctuary in Sydney.

Australia's escalating bushfire crisis calls for an urgent, comprehensive national reset, according to a new report, ...

With more wet weather likely for Queensland, some people believe the worst is yet to come Thousands of rats - dead and alive - have swept up on beaches in Queensland Australia, overwhelming residents.

Species reintroductions often focus on the threatened and endangered. But one rewilding project in Sydney shows that transplanting common species can give ecosystems a much-needed leg up.

Bush rats had chewed through some of the wiring ... A spokesperson for Insurance Australia Group said the group had received almost 200 claims related to vermin damage in NSW this year, with ...

Researchers trained 11 rats to sniff out elephant tusk and rhino ... Photo shows A cockatoo bites the wire of the cage it is held in. Australian wildlife is showing up around the world where ...

Freaked-out flyers spotted what appeared to be a rat running above an overhead bin on a Spirit Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas to Los Angeles, California. A video depicting the furry ...

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 ...

The new edition of the Australian National Dictionary includes ... New words from Aboriginal languages include: Akudjura (a bush tomato), Bilma (a clapstick), Bunji (a mate), Dayang (a heath ...