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 ...

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.

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 — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from Flinders ...

“The musky rat-kangaroo, as the most primitive living macropodoid (a group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs), can offer insight into evolution within the group ...

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.

Unusually small burrows, i.e., tiny tubes that run through the rock ... Bite-Size Clue May Help Rediscover the Missing Desert Rat-Kangaroo Feb. 25, 2025 — An intriguing native Australian rat ...

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 ...

Researchers analysed the desert rat-kangaroo's skull to understand its ... inhospitable terrain means it is plausible that a small species could be evading detection," he told Yahoo.