It’s only their size and nocturnal lifestyle that led European naturalists to put the rat in their name. They’re no relation to the North American kangaroo rat. The team collaborated with The ...

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Texas kangaroo rat as an endangered species. The agency also proposed protecting 597,069 acres in Childress, Cottle, Hardeman, Wichita ...

Once considered common, the San Bernardino kangaroo rat had lost significant habitat by the 1930s. With continued habitat fragmentation and destruction, today nearly 95 percent of the kangaroo rat's ...

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

There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ... The Sturt Stony Desert in the far north-east of South Australia is one of the world's most ...

In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the last living representative of its family.

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct ... their home range in the Lake Eyre Basin in remote far north-east South Australia into adjacent Queensland.