Plagues of “bold as hell” rats have overrun tropical fishing towns in northern Australia, where residents are clearing piles of “smelly” dead rodents off the beach every morning. The native long-haired rats have been steadily marching towards the coast after a bumper wet season in inland Australia, spreading hundreds of kilometres in their hunt for new crops to nibble on. Now they have reached the gulf towns of Karumba and Normanton in the state of […]