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 adorable Stephens' kangaroo rat, which is endemic to Southern California, has made an impressive comeback thanks to over three decades of conservation efforts and a recent government investment of ...

It's the classic predator-prey matchup. A stealthy rattlesnake, patiently waiting for the right moment to strike a seemingly unsuspecting and vulnerable kangaroo rat. But high-speed video from ...

For decades, an imperiled rodent was thought to exist only in a tiny pocket of sandhills in Henry Cowell State Park in Santa Cruz County – and nowhere else on Earth. But scientists have spotted new ...

Meet the Texas kangaroo rat. The adorable furry critter, found in parts of North Texas, is yellowish-brown with a white belly and long hind feet good for jumping. It has large eyes, tiny ears and a ...

When a photo of a burrow-dwelling critter with an unusually long tail was captured by a trail camera in the rugged mountains of the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve in 2019, researchers were baffled.

The animal in question hadn't been seen in the area in more than 75 years and was listed as a "critically imperiled subspecies." When a photo of a burrow-dwelling critter with an unusually long tail ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- When threatened by a hungry snake in the wild, desert kangaroo rats have powerful and spectacular moves like ninja-style kicks and jumps in their arsenal to protect themselves. A ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A new species of kangaroo rat was discovered in Oregon by an East Tennessee State University (ETSU) scientist. This new species, discovered at a fossil site in Oregon, is ...

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 ...