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

Flinders University researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the last living representative of its family ...

A musky rat-kangaroo in the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland. Photo by Amy TschirnTo understand why kangaroos hop - a rarity ...

As the only living macropodoid (the group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs) that doesn’t hop, they can provide a crucial insight into how and when this iconic form of ...

Year 3099 !! All the way over on the other side of the world in Australia there was a herd of Kangaroos. One of the joeys was called Ruby. She loved jumping around with her friend Lucy.