They also occupy areas where sandy soils are wind deposited. These soft soils allow kangaroo rats to dig shallow burrows and they support alluvial sage scrub, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral ...

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 ...

The Santa Ana sucker is able to rebuild populations quickly after massive floods, and San Bernardino kangaroo rats actually need regular flooding in order to survive. The rats, who get their name ...

The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants, but its short round face led previous researchers to ...

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.

WICHITA FALLS, Texas— Responding to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Texas kangaroo rat as an endangered species. The agency ...

To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky rat-kangaroo.