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

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small ...

When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of the desert rat-kangaroo's skull were only found to be effective enough to handle eating a softer range of foods." ...

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 ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be hiding in the vast and harsh Sturt Stony Desert of Australia. A recent ...

When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of the desert rat-kangaroo's skull were only found to be effective enough to handle eating a softer range of foods." ...

Bouncing around on their giant hind feet, seed-eating San Bernardino kangaroo rats are highly adapted to southwestern deserts and the natural flood cycles found there. Though these kangaroo rats ...

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

This led researchers to suggest that it could eat harder desert foods like roots ... In fact, the desert rat-kangaroo was already a Lazarus species after its rediscovery in the 1930s.