The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 grams and looks a bit like ... Perhaps it started with an ancestor that moved about on all fours like other marsupials, such as ...

Credit: HH Finlayson (The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia. Angus & Robertson Limited, Sydney, Australia. 2nd Ed. 1936) New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo ...

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.

The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus ... that moved about on all fours like other marsupials, such as brush-tail possums, then an animal that bounded like the muskies, and finally ...

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.

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky ...

SUMMERS: But a bigger question is how kangaroos' superpower came to be. To investigate, Bishop and his colleagues turned to a sort of evolutionary second cousin of the kangaroo, a rat-looking creature ...

In Queensland's rainforests, the musky rat-kangaroo is the last of its family and provides insights into the evolution of hopping in kangaroos. Unlike other kangaroos, muskies use a unique 'bound' ...

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