Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reemergence of a keystone species sparked joy among scientists, ecologists, and biologists. The Santa Cruz kangaroo rat — a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The animal in question hadn't been seen in the area in more than 75 years and was listed as a "critically imperiled subspecies." When a photo of a burrow-dwelling critter with an unusually long tail ...

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For most animals, drinking water is a daily necessity. However, some species have evolved ways to remain hydrated without ...

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky ...

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 ...