Jerboa vs. Kangaroo Rat: Classification. Members of the 33 jerboa species belong to five subfamilies under the family Dipodidae, consisting of birch mice and jumping mice.The family Dipodidae gets ...

The kangaroo rat study is part of an $800,000 project to help store water for 650,000 people from Riverside to Fontana. ... The rats’ unique adaptations to live in the wash, ...

Consider that a human eye can blink in about 150 milliseconds. That's not as fast as a rattlesnake can strike its prey, but not always fast enough if the target is a kangaroo rat.

The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, more closely related to chipmunks and gophers than kangaroos or rats, had not been spotted in the area since the 1940s. Kangaroo rat offers clues about health of Santa ...

Its formal name is the nocturnal Stephens' kangaroo rat - small enough to fit in your palm, and its name suggests exactly what it looks like. It has oversized hind legs like a kangaroo.

Texas kangaroo rat species is closer to being named an endangered species The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first identified the unique rodent as needing protection more than 40 years ago.

A kangaroo rat hadn’t been seen in that area since 1940. But the Sierra Azul Preserve is the most massive of Midpen’s open space lands, ...

A kangaroo rat out-maneuvers a rattlesnake. (Image credit: San Diego State University and UC Riverside) In a pair of new studies published March 27 in the Functional Ecology journal and the ...