A n intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas— Responding to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Texas kangaroo rat as an endangered species. The agency ...

RANGE: The San Bernardino kangaroo rat was once a common resident of the San Bernardino Valley in Southern California's San Bernardino County and in the San Jacinto River valley in Riverside County.

To investigate, Bishop and his colleagues turned to a sort of evolutionary second cousin of the kangaroo, a rat-looking creature called the musky rat-kangaroo. BISHOP: It's kind of stocky ...