The elusive northern hopping mouse is on the brink of extinction but a new camera trap has captured video of the species for the first time. THE ELUSIVE NORTHERN hopping mouse (Notomys aquilo), a tiny ...

With a teeny 10-centimetre body, usually only venturing forth at night from its underground home in remote parts of Top End, it is no wonder the northern hopping mouse has so far escaped an official ...

Daniel Burton chanced upon something extraordinary as he patrolled a fenceline at the rolling red sand dunes of the 65,000-hectare Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary in south-west New South Wales. Populations ...

While the feral cats are away, the dusky hopping mice can come out to play – thanks to the help of dingoes THE DINGO MAY BE the unlikely saviour of the native and endangered dusky hopping mouse ...

The rare Dusky Hopping Mouse. Trail cameras continue to serve as excellent tools in the field of conservation as an Australian wildlife group discovered recently when they captured images of ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It’s been almost two centuries since the small Mitchell’s hopping mouse jumped across NSW, but ...

THE endangered dusky hopping mice has an unlikely ally in the outback dingo, which is helping to keep feral cat populations down, new research has found. University of New South Wales scientists ...

A TINY mouse found in the deserts of central and western Australia may hold valuable clues to the way appetite is regulated in people. The spinifex hopping mouse, which weighs no more than 30 grams, ...

Australia's most attractive rodent has been spotted more than 100km from its usual stomping ground, in the deserts and sand dunes of far northwestern NSW. The vulnerable Dusky Hopping Mouse made the ...