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

A musky rat-kangaroo in the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland. Photo by Amy TschirnTo understand why kangaroos hop - a rarity ...

As the only living macropodoid (the group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs) that doesn’t hop, they can provide a crucial insight into how and when this iconic form of ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably ... have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to understand the kinds of food the desert rat-kangaroo ...

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

But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance ... Together, they represent the largest remaining Australian carnivorous marsupials—native animals at the top of their food chains.

Except it wasn't a rat, but a young kangaroo brought from ... one piece of evidence pointing to a proliferation of Australian native animals taken overseas by servicemen during the war, according ...

18 (Xinhua) -- At least nine species of endangered Australian marsupial carnivores, including the iconic Tasmanian Devil and all of Australia's quoll species, are more endangered by rat and mouse ...

“When we included the animal’s smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of the desert rat-kangaroo’s skull ... efforts to specific regions in Australia where softer foods ...