Man-made climate change appears to have taken out the only mammal native to Australia's Great Barrier Reef region. The Bramble Cay melomys is a tiny rodent that once existed on the island of Bramble ...

The rising ocean has eliminated its first species. On a small island off the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, avocado-sized rodents used to skitter across the sand and forest floor, dining on ...

Goodbye Bramble Cay melomys, we hardly knew ye. A tiny tropical rat has been making big headlines, but unfortunately its most notable achievement is nothing to celebrate. Melissa Price, Minister for ...

Climate change might have one of its biggest casualties to date. A study published this month out of Australia reveals that the disappearance of the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent, from its ...

On Monday, a release from Australia’s Department of the Environment and Energy confirmed the sad fate of the Bramble Cay melomys, a tiny brown rat that is officially extinct, very likely due to ...

The Earth just lost its first mammals to human-caused climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys were once considered common creatures, but sea-level rise proved to be the species’ demise. First Mammals ...

At first glance, the Australian island of Bramble Cay is unremarkable except for the steel lighthouse at one end. Otherwise, the small isle is dotted with a few grass clumps, shorebirds and nesting ...

For the first time in recorded history, the extinction of a mammalian species has been linked primarily to man-made climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent that lived only on an island ...