To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky rat-kangaroo.

“This amounts to a new lease on life for the San Bernardino kangaroo rat,” Silver said. About the settlement As part of the agreement, which was reached on August 29, county officials will ...

The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be hiding in the vast and harsh Sturt Stony Desert of Australia.