They believe the answer may lie with the small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing ... "Perhaps it started with an ancestor that moved about on all fours like other marsupials, then ...

Certain animals have evolved remarkable speeds ... Australia's biggest marsupial in the whole world, kangaroo, is renowned for its hop-like jump. Even though it is not among the fastest creatures ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small potoroids, close relatives of kangaroos, demonstrate this transition by using ...

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

Hopping has evolved multiple times in the animal ... the musky rat-kangaroo. BISHOP: It's kind of stocky, small, forages about in the tropical rainforests, doesn't look a thing like what you ...

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

They believe the answer may lie with the small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling ... that moved about on all fours like other marsupials, then an animal that bounded like the muskies, and ...

The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 grams and looks a bit like a potoroo ... However, the vast majority of animals that hop are really small. The only hopping animals ...