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The desert rat-kangaroo, an extinct marsupial species, could actually be alive and ‘evading detection’ in Australia desert, new study says.

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky rat ...

Kangaroos are an iconic symbol of Australia, and you'll likely see plenty of them about while you're camping in the country.

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 ...

In this new effort, the team in Australia wondered if rats in their country have developed such mutations that would increase their resistance to SGARs.

To understand why kangaroos hop – a rarity among animals – Flinders University researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that ...

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. If ...

The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 grams and looks a bit like a potoroo. It's part of a lineage that extends back to before kangaroos evolved their distinctive ...

Studies on the musky rat-kangaroo suggest that bipedal hopping may have evolved from a synchronized quadrupedal gait. This transition could have been favored by environmental changes, such as the ...