The experts in marsupial evolution and ecology have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to understand the kinds of food the desert rat-kangaroo ate, thus narrowing down ...

Biologist Katharine Edmonson asked the young boy who approached her table if he wanted to hold the tiger skull in his hands. Some children hesitate, but not 11-year-old Devin Shuman, a fifth-grader at ...

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 ...

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 ...