For decades, an imperiled rodent was thought to exist only in a tiny pocket of sandhills in Henry Cowell State Park in Santa Cruz County – and nowhere else on Earth. But scientists have spotted new ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have discovered new details ...

The animal in question hadn't been seen in the area in more than 75 years and was listed as a "critically imperiled subspecies." When a photo of a burrow-dwelling critter with an unusually long tail ...