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

As the only living macropodoid (the group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs) that doesn’t hop, they can provide a crucial insight into how and when this iconic form 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 ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

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

A regular population boom and bust cycle causes millions of kangaroos to starve, but while some urge proactive culling as the ...

Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum ...

“The musky rat-kangaroo, as the most primitive living macropodoid (a group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs), can offer insight into evolution within the group ...

three cases separately attended the Alice Springs Hospital emergency department and clinicians reported they were from a larger group who had consumed hunted kangaroo. There was no environmental ...