Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea.

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While kangaroos are easier to spot than many of Australia's more secretive native species, a suite of threats currently face these magnificent animals. The 2019-20 fire season was exceptional because, ...

An artist’s impression of the newly described fossil species Protemnodon viator and its relative Protemnodon anak, compared at scale to the living red kangaroo and eastern grey kangaroo.

Even the giant kangaroos that roamed Australia thousands of years ago might have been able to hop, according to a new analysis of bones. Some of the kangaroos living during the Pleistocene were more ...

A type of extinct kangaroo that lived during the Pleistocene around two and a half million to ten thousand years ago, known as the 'giant wallaby', was a poor hopper, a study has found. A type of ...

Kangaroos have such a taste for leaves that they have evolved the ability to eat them on at least four separate occasions during their evolutionary history, a new fossil discovery reveals. Today, ...