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 ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable ...

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 ...

RANGE: The San Bernardino Valley in Southern California's San Bernardino County and the San Jacinto River valley in Riverside County THREATS: Loss, degradation, and fragmentation of habitat due 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.