it’s only listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, while the San Bernardino kangaroo rat has been considered endangered since 1998. Still, the fish’s habitat has also been ...

along with several living bettong and potoroo species. It’s only their size and nocturnal lifestyle that led European naturalists to put the rat in their name. They’re no relation to the North ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

A giant kangaroo rat, rescued and safely released by a permit ... Increased drought adds to conservation concerns for this endangered species. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

The desert's vast, inhospitable terrain means it is plausible for a small nocturnal species to be evading detection. In fact, the desert rat-kangaroo was already a Lazarus species after its ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...

The desert’s vast, inhospitable terrain means it is plausible for a small nocturnal species to be evading detection. In fact, the desert rat-kangaroo was already a Lazarus species after its ...

The plausibility of the undetected survival of a species varies with many factors ... They’re no relation to the North American kangaroo rat. “Rat-kangaroos, like bettongs and potoroos ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through the rainforest may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo ...