Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

And Australia used to have a lot more kangaroo species, many of them quite large. Despite the abundance of fossil kangaroos, we still don’t really know why they evolved their hopping gait ...

In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the ...

Apr. 15, 2024 — Palaeontologists have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method ...

They plunge into the blackest of caverns. Pitfall traps have gobbled up many a kangaroo bounding through the night. One day in 1969 a fledgling fossil hunter named Rod Wells came to Naracoorte to ...

Palaeontologist Dr Isaac Kerr displays the fossil jaw of the giant kangaroo Protemnodon viator and the far smaller jaw of the largest living kangaroo, the red kangaroo. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger kangaroo species that famously ... The researchers said they hoped to find fossils of ancient marsupials to better understand the evolution ...