In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the ...

As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more ...

Orphaned joeys need specialized care from experienced kangaroo rescuers. Find out more about this joey and her journey back ...

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

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new ...

much more kangaroos than rodents: They’re marsupials and members of the potoroidae, along with several living bettong and potoroo species. It’s only their size and nocturnal lifestyle that led ...

"So regardless of whether or not the species persists in the Sturt Stony Desert or elsewhere, the story of the desert rat-kangaroo serves as an ongoing reminder that extinction declarations might ...

From pangolin, gibbon, iguana, non-native monkeys, to wallaby, kangaroo, tri-coloured squirrel, and birds such as the maleo and Visayan hornbill, the list of exotic species being seized across the ...

The desert’s vast, inhospitable terrain means it is plausible for a small nocturnal species to be evading detection. In fact, the desert rat-kangaroo was already a Lazarus species after its ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...