Researchers have finally found a tiny animal they’d been seeking for years in a California nature preserve. The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat has been documented at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in ...

In 2019, cameras set up by wildlife photographer and researcher Ken Hickman in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, a sprawling, 19,000-acre tract of wilderness in the Santa Cruz Mountains, captured ...

Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant ...

At the base of the dunes, this kangaroo rat is just beginning his day. This nocturnal rodent hops like a kangaroo and has the appearance of a rat, but he is neither. (crickets chirping) - [Narrator] ...

When California declared the San Bernardino kangaroo rat an endangered species recently, conservationists rejoiced. The state designation seemed to promise stronger protections for the tiny, ...

A Texas rodent threatened by habitat loss may be one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Texas ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- When threatened by a hungry snake in the wild, desert kangaroo rats have powerful and spectacular moves like ninja-style kicks and jumps in their arsenal to protect themselves. A ...

Citing habitat protection progress in Southern California, the Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed bouncing the Stephens’ kangaroo rat from endangered to threatened status. Citing habitat ...

We have an update now on the survival of a cute, little rat. A species of kangaroo rat has made it off the endangered species list. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Its formal name is the nocturnal Stephens' ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO – The Stephens’ kangaroo rat, a ...

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 ...

Nocturnal rodent, the Stephens' kangaroo rat, was on the endangered species list but this month it was reclassified as threatened. We have an update now on the survival of a cute, little rat. A ...