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

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned ...

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

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.

It gets its name from the Latin word for 'wayfarer' due to its long limbs that would have let it hop long distances. These prehistoric roos would have looked much like a modern grey kangaroo ...

Perhaps they were used to grab branches, bringing leaves within eating distance. The closest living relative of the Giant Short-faced Kangaroo is probably the Banded Hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus ...