Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas Island pipistrelle and a rat, the Bramble Cay melomys. One of the United States’ smallest native ...

The Bramble Cay melomys, an unassuming rodent that once inhabited a coral island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, holds the tragic title of the first mammal declared extinct due to human ...

The Australian government officially moved the rodent-like Bramble Cay melomys to the ‘extinct’ species list. The species’ only known home was the world’s largest coral reef system ...