Researchers working at what became known as the Portal Project near Portal, Arizona, excluded kangaroo rats from certain fenced plots in the Chihuahuan Desert to study competition among rodents. About ...

In some of the driest deserts of North America, a small, big-eyed rodent thrives where standing water almost never appears. The kangaroo rat manages this feat not by finding hidden springs but by ...

A giant kangaroo rat, rescued and safely released by a permit-holder during a PG&E pipeline excavation project. Giant kangaroo rats are native to dry habitats in CA and adapted to short droughts, ...

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 ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A new species of kangaroo rat was discovered in Oregon by an East Tennessee State University (ETSU) scientist. This new species, discovered at a fossil site in Oregon, is ...

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 ...

I am a wildlife biologist and had the opportunity to assist a lab mate in live trapping for the endangered Giant Kangaroo Rat under permit. This is a real privilege as this species' range is not only ...

It was a race against nightfall. As he hurried across the sandy, bristling landscape of California’s Carrizo Plain, ecologist Ian Axsom stopped every 10 yards to place an aluminum live trap on the ...