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 ...

Young rats are born and reared inside the burrow. LIFE CYCLE: Kangaroo rats generally live two to five years. FEEDING: San Bernardino kangaroo rats feed on seeds, grains, insects, and seasonally ...

To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky rat-kangaroo.

The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants, but its short round face led previous researchers to ...

There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ... eat harder desert foods like roots, nuts and seeds. But in our latest analysis, we showed that ...

The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants, but its short round face led previous researchers to suggest that it could eat harder foods as well if needed, such as seeds and ...

To investigate, Bishop and his colleagues turned to a sort of evolutionary second cousin of the kangaroo, a rat-looking creature called the musky rat-kangaroo. BISHOP: It's kind of stocky ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small Australian mammals lost to cats and foxes, but all hope is not gone.

There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ... eat harder desert foods like roots, nuts and seeds. But in our latest analysis, we showed that ...