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." ...

Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

and San Bernardino kangaroo rats actually need regular flooding in order to survive. The rats, who get their name because of their two-legged stance and large haunches, eat mostly seeds and are ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The San Bernardino kangaroo rat is found in flood-prone areas only in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The seed-eating animal got its moniker from hopping around on large hind legs much like a ...