Mostly because another group of perfectly good creatures is hopping around in a remarkably similar manner, only much more adorably: the 30-odd species of achingly cute, bipedal jerboa, rodents ...

Extraordinary footage of the endangered long-eared jerboa was taken by scientists from the EDGE; this is the first time the jerboa, a hopping rodent that sports massive ears, has ever been caught ...

It appears that once evolution set jerboa bones on the path toward fusing together, they overshot the optimum amount of fusing -- the structure that best dissipated stresses from jumping and ...

Foot bones that are separate in small hopping rodents are fused in their larger cousins, and a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego, wanted to ...

hopping little rodent called the jerboa. Just look at those crazy long legs. A jerboa looks like a tiny kangaroo, only it doesn't have an Australian accent because it lives in the deserts of North ...

The jerboa is a member of the rodent family, but looks like “a fuzzy rodent T-Rex ” according to scientists studying the animal’s long, springy hindlimb. Video producer Christian Baker tells us how ...

MY, WHAT big ears you have. This aptly named long-eared jerboa has some of the biggest ears on the planet — at least compared with its body size. Each ear is around 1.3 times the length of its ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of domestic sheep grazing on northern three-toed jerboa (Dipus sagitta) populations pre-, post-, and during hibernation. We conducted a ...