In the heart of Australia, as red dust swirls in the twilight and the stars pierce the vast sky, two remarkable creatures quietly shape the land beneath our feet. Bilbies and bandicoots, the unsung ...

They were last recorded on the mainland 4–30 years before foxes are known to have arrived. Then there are examples of coexistence. The eastern barred bandicoot lived alongside cats on the mainland for ...

The nearly extinct eastern barred bandicoot, almost wiped out in the wild by predators, has been given a helping hand in Victoria.

Silly-looking or not, though, the zebra rat—the smallest bandicoot, more commonly known today as the western barred bandicoot—exhibited a genius for survival in the harsh outback, where its ...