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

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 ...

Kangaroos, closely related wallabies are the only large animals to hop upright on two legs A small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread ...

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

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with unconfirmed sightings suggesting it may still exist. A fascinating native Australian ...

A kangaroo escaped from his SC pen over the weekend. His owners, Myrtle Beach area residents Justin and Lindsey Richardson, ...

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

Senior author of the new study, Flinders University Associate Professor Vera Weisbecker, says: "It is plausible that a small, nocturnal species could be evading detection in the vast inland desert ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and ...