The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be hiding in the vast and harsh Sturt Stony Desert of Australia.

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

Specifically, scientists mentioned the Sturt Stony Desert, an outback desert in South Australia, as a potential place to look. “It is plausible that a small, nocturnal species could be evading ...

The country's stony desert areas shrank to 12 million hectares by the end of 2011, down 7.4 percent from 2005, according to the latest monitoring results released by the State Forestry Administration.

China's stony desert areas shrank to 12 million hectares (120,000 square kilometers) by the end of 2011, down 7.4 percent from 2005, according to the State Forestry Administration (SFA) Thursday.

One was stony desert pavement, and the other was sandy and typical of the desert environment. The rover also used a drill to collect 32 samples 80 centimeters below the surface.