The skull of a black rat (right) compared with a fairly complete skull of one of Timor's other extinct giant rats (left). The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct rats ...

There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ... This small, possibly extinct marsupial from the inhospitable Sturt Stony Desert may have had a ...

African giant pouched rats, which have previously been trained ... The Guardian reported. Endangered wildlife trafficking is a huge problem in the region, with rhinos, elephants, and pangolins ...

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 ...