Kangaroos are iconic Australian animals who have long been used as a symbol within the country to represent moving forward.

The kangaroo rat’s evolutionary history began in North America during the Late Miocene Epoch (11.2 million to 5.3 million years ago). Jerboa vs. Kangaroo Rat: Appearance Jerboas are animals that have ...

Weighing just 500 grams (about 1.1 pounds), the musky rat-kangaroo stands out for its unique mode of movement among marsupials. Unlike its kangaroo cousins, it does not hop but uses a distinctive gait ...

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 ...

Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum jawbones could assist the search to find them.

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta.

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 ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert – and Flinders University researchers ...

Australia's most endangered marsupial and rarest marsupial in the world, the Gilbert's potoroo, is back thanks to 30 years of conservation efforts.

ALTHOUGH the physiology of the camel, kangaroo-rat, jerboa and various domestic animals of desert regions has been examined in some detail1,2, nothing is known of the heat and water relations of ...

Good news for two imperiled species found only in Southern California: Wildlife groups and local water agencies have reached an agreement to protect the habitats of the San Bernardino kangaroo rat ...

A San Bernardino kangaroo rat roams in a cage as biologists prepare to fit the endangered rats with transmitter backpack at the San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District offices in ...