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

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small ...

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new study offers a potential roadmap for its rediscovery. The desert rat-kangaroo, ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...

The species was previously thought to be long extinct, until mammal researcher Hedley Herbert Finlayson led the rediscovery ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable ...

When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of the desert rat-kangaroo's skull were only found to be effective enough to handle eating a softer range of foods." ...

The elusive desert rat-kangaroo, or ngudlukanta, believed extinct, may yet roam the Sturt Stony Desert. New skull biomechanics research suggests its diet was softer than previously thought, relying on ...

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta to the ...

There was no water anywhere and the land had become a desert: all was dry and dusty; the grass faded, the plants wilted. ‘The animals are so thirsty,’ said Kangaroo. ‘All because of Tiddalik!’ ...