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 discovered new details ...

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. If ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Emily Davis from the Great Plains Nature Center visited KSN News at Noon on Aug. 9, 2022, and introduced us to Roo, an Ord’s kangaroo rat. Ord’s kangaroo rats are native to ...

With lightning-fast reflexes to rival Mr Miyagi, new vision has revealed just how the elusive kangaroo rat is able to pirouette out of peril in less than the blink of an eye. The research team planted ...

Researchers have finally found a tiny animal they’d been seeking for years in a California nature preserve. The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat has been documented at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in ...

The desert bettong, or ngudlukanta, has been listed as extinct since 1994. Photos taken by Hedley Herbert Finlayson who ‘rediscovered’ the ngudlukanta in the 1930s. An intriguing native Australian rat ...