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 last living representative of its family. The musky ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red kangaroos are the largest hopping animals today, but their ancestors were almost double their size. It’s easy to assume P.

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

For decades, scientists have debated a simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer: could Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos actually hop like the ones alive today? Modern kangaroos are ...

Research for first time suggests tendon and bones in heavier species would have made bounding possible Giant 250kg kangaroos that once roamed Australia would probably have been able to hop despite ...

A driver in southern England was left stunned after catching footage of what appeared to be a kangaroo hopping alongside his car in the middle of the night. The sighting happened in Oxfordshire, a ...

Musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus). Credit: Wikimedia commons. Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. In the remnant ...

The evolutionary history of kangaroos, which are the only hopping animals with body masses greater than 5kg, cannot be understood without considering the origins of their diverse locomotor behaviours, ...