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.

However, Mojave woodrats consume the resin daily, in amounts that would be lethal to other animals. The desert rodents only began to consume creosote approximately 17,000 years ago, when climatic ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small Australian mammals lost to cats and foxes, but all hope is not gone.