To investigate, Bishop and his colleagues turned to a sort of evolutionary second cousin of the kangaroo, a rat-looking creature called the musky rat-kangaroo. BISHOP: It's kind of stocky ...

The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be hiding in the vast and harsh Sturt Stony Desert of Australia.

RANGE: The San Bernardino kangaroo rat was once a common resident of the San Bernardino Valley in Southern California's San Bernardino County and in the San Jacinto River valley in Riverside County.

The owner of the kangaroo spotted last year hopping around Pierson, Florida, a city located in the northeastern part of the state, received almost $1,000 in fines and costs during a hearing ...

In the tropical forests of northern Queensland, a small marsupial puzzles scientists. The musky rat-kangaroo, the last surviving member of its family, may hold keys to understanding the evolution of ...

They believe the answer may lie with the small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread. Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger ...