Senior author of the new study, Flinders University Associate Professor Vera Weisbecker, says: "It is plausible that a small, nocturnal species could be evading detection in the vast inland desert ...

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 ...

inhospitable terrain means it is plausible for a small nocturnal species to be evading detection. In fact, the desert rat-kangaroo was already a Lazarus species after its rediscovery in the 1930s.

inhospitable terrain means it is plausible for a small nocturnal species to be evading detection. In fact, the desert ...

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

The experts in marsupial evolution and ecology have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to understand the kinds of food the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ...

The desert rat-kangaroo, thought extinct, may still exist in the Sturt Stony Desert. Research on its skull biomechanics reveals it likely consumed softer foods, contrary to previous beliefs.

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

But while a scientific review panel originally concluded that additional critical habitat should be designated for San Bernardino kangaroo rats, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under pressure from ...

They have pouches on the outsides of their cheeks that they use for carrying seeds back to their burrows. While kangaroo rats rely mostly on storing large quantities of seeds in tiny pit caches near ...