"Rat-kangaroos like bettongs and potoroos are an ideal group of animals for testing skull biomechanics because they each have differently shaped skulls and specialize in very different food groups ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...

By taking a CT scan of an anesthetized rat, they were able to send the data to a 3D printer and create an exact replica of the individual’s anatomy.

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert – and Flinders University researchers ...

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.