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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We have an update now on the survival of a cute, little rat. A species of kangaroo rat has made it off the endangered species list. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Its formal name is the nocturnal Stephens' ...

LOS GATOS, Calif. - An almost extinct, rare rodent has reemerged in Santa Clara County. Previously thought to exist only in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and nowhere else on earth, the Santa Cruz ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO – The Stephens’ kangaroo rat, a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...