Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons.

Of the 52 test subjects, 26 tested positive for anticoagulant rodenticides, with 11 of those having more than one compound ...

Staggering results were shown in the research from Edith Cowan University (ECU), which tested five of Australia's largest native marsupial carnivores for anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs), or poisons, ...

Australia's most endangered marsupial and rarest marsupial in the world, the Gilbert's potoroo, is back thanks to 30 years of ...

An overstuffed opossum couldn't move after eating most of a Costco chocolate mousse cake. Rescuers discovered another ...

No wonder they’re so often mistaken for rats of unusual size! But that’s where the similarities between the opossum and rodent end. As marsupials, opossums can carry up to 13 babies in their ...

Rat and mouse baits commonly used around the home and in the workplace could potentially wipe out as many as nine species of endangered Australian marsupial carnivores, including the iconic Tasmanian ...

That’s why the true identity of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole, has been called into question for decades. The two fit-in-your-hand Notoryctes species are ...

Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal found only in the deserts of Australia – the marsupial mole. There are two related species of the marsupial mole. Notoryctes typhlops, or southern ...

Researchers say they hope to use the information they’ve gathered to help with the conservation of other more threatened marsupial species. The success of this procedure was a long time coming.

Because these marsupials are already threatened with extinction, it's theorised exposure to rat baits could tip them over the edge. Associate Professor Dr Rob Davis from Edith Cowan University ...