The textbook case of how to survive in a desert may have important details wrong, according to new studies of kangaroo rats.
Species in the genus Dipodomys, nocturnal rodents that scurry through North America’s deserts, have epitomized toughness in punishing climates, says Randall Tracy of the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
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