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 ...

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 ...

It's the classic predator-prey matchup. A stealthy rattlesnake, patiently waiting for the right moment to strike a seemingly unsuspecting and vulnerable kangaroo rat. But high-speed video from ...

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 ...

When a photo of a burrow-dwelling critter with an unusually long tail was captured by a trail camera in the rugged mountains of the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve in 2019, researchers were baffled.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - An almost extinct, rare rodent has reemerged in Santa Clara County. Previously thought to exist only in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and nowhere else on earth, the Santa Cruz ...