A Texas rodent threatened by habitat loss may be one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Texas ...

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Nocturnal rodent, the Stephens' kangaroo rat, was on the endangered species list but this month it was reclassified as threatened. We have an update now on the survival of a cute, little rat. A ...

In 2019, cameras set up by wildlife photographer and researcher Ken Hickman in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, a sprawling, 19,000-acre tract of wilderness in the Santa Cruz Mountains, captured ...

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 ...

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 ...

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