Great Barrier Reef's melomys is world's first mammal climate casualty: scientists. ... between Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and the southern shores of Papua New Guinea.

There are just four known species of melomys in Australia, and a handful more found in Papua New Guinea. Of our native species, the grassland melomys (M. burtoni), found along the northern coast of ...

Fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes), nocturnal native rodent. Cape Tribulation, Daintree National Park, North Queensland, Australia. A cousin to the one pictured, the Melomys rubicola, has ...