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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant ...

When a photo of a burrow-dwelling critter with an unusually long tail was captured by a trail camera in the rugged mountains of the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve in 2019, researchers were baffled.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ranch manager said I could park the camp trailer anywhere and plug in the power cord as long as we didn't block the door of the big shed. After I thanked him for his kindness and generosity, the ...