LIFE CYCLE: Kangaroo rats generally live two to five years. FEEDING: San Bernardino kangaroo rats feed on seeds, grains, insects, and seasonally available green vegetation. They have pouches on the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Texas kangaroo rats have long tails and long hind feet that enable their kangaroo-like leaping movements which help them evade predators. They collect grass seeds in an external cheek pouch and then ...

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 ...

Flinders University researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the last living representative of its family ...

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

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned ...