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." ...

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

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 ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have ...

Bouncing around on their giant hind feet, seed-eating San ... for San Bernardino kangaroo rats, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under pressure from development and mining interests, has repeatedly ...

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

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