New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with unconfirmed sightings suggesting it may still exist. A fascinating native Australian ...

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo ... thus narrowing down the best areas to monitor for the little animal.

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo ... thus narrowing down the best areas to monitor for the little animal. “Rat-kangaroos, like bettongs and potoroos, are an ideal group of animals ...

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably ... have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to understand the kinds of food the desert rat-kangaroo ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

thus narrowing down the best areas to monitor for the little animal. An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable ...