Scientists believe the Bramble cay melomys, named after an island of the same name (the only place in the world they'd been spotted), went extinct due to human-driven climate change.

The government of Australia has now officially recognized the Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) as extinct. The animal seems to have disappeared from its home in the eastern Torres Strait of ...

There is a slim chance, Leung said, the Bramble Cay melomys still exists — perhaps on nearby Papua New Guinea — though there is no confirmation of the animals having lived anywhere except the ...

The Bramble Cay melomys doesn't look like much, but it's become the first mammal to go extinct because of human-caused climate change. Claire Reilly Former Principal Video Producer.

This summer, the Bramble Cay melomys, a reddish-brown rodent that resembles a large mouse, made international news.In mid-June, The Guardian reported that the melomys, last seen in 2009, had been ...

The Bramble Cay melomys, which has only ever been recorded living on a small island off north Queensland, resembles a small brown rat and has not been sighted since 2009.

The Bramble Cay melomys -- also known as the "mosaic-tailed rat" -- lived on a cay, a reef island made up of coral rubble and sand, located in the eastern Torres Strait.

The first recorded Bramble Cay melomys sightings date back to the 1800s. In 1978, researchers estimated several hundred rodents lived on the island, but the numbers dropped to the double-digits by ...

Climate Change and the Bramble Cay Melomys. In a 2016 report, scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia noted that the consistent rise in sea level and increases in storm frequency ...

The Bramble Cay Melomys (Melomys rubicola) has one of the most unusual and precarious distributions of all Australian mammals. The melomys is restricted to an unstable 4-5 hectare coral cay in the ...