Australia might be famous for its unusual and dangerous wildlife, but five million years ago scientists say things would have been even stranger. Giant kangaroos - some more than twice the size of ...

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

Eastern gray kangaroos roam the forests of Australia and Tasmania and prefer to live among the trees, though they do take to open grasslands for grazing. Gray kangaroos, red kangaroos, and ...

The vast majority of animals that hop are really small. The only hopping animals with body masses over 500 grams are kangaroos ...

"We were surprised to find the heftier skull of the desert rat-kangaroo isn't necessarily adapted for biting into harder foods. When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis ...

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 ...