Paleontologists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a new species in the extinct kangaroo genus Dorcopsoides.
The greater forest-wallaby...
Large-bodied extinct kangaroos of the genus Protemnodon were not intrepid travelers who bounded across the plains, but rather homebodies, who did not journey...
Paleontologists from the Museums Victoria Research Institute and elsewhere have unearthed a nearly 50,000-year-old skeleton of Simosthenurus occidentalis...
Scientists from the University of Tasmania and Western University have experimentally demonstrated that kangaroos, wallabies and other Australian marsupials...
The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is the largest of modern-day carnivorous marsupials and was hunted to extinction by European settlers in Australia....
In a new study, paleontologists from the United Kingdom and Sweden reviewed the fossil evidence of locomotion of kangaroos and their relatives (wallabies,...
Tree-kangaroos (genus Dendrolagus) today are found only in tropical forests of Queensland and New Guinea, but between 3.5 million and 250,000 years ago,...
Paleontologists have re-examined the remains of extinct, large-bodied marsupials recovered from Pleistocene-aged layers of Nombe Rockshelter in the highlands...
Paleontologists have redescribed an extinct species of giant kangaroo that lived the mountains of Papua New Guinea about 50,000 to 20,000 years ago and...
Congruus kitcheneri, an extinct species of kangaroo that lived in Australia between 2.6 million and 12,000 years ago, was adapted for climbing trees,...
A 2-m- (6.6-foot) long painting of a kangaroo in a rock shelter in the north-eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia is dated to between 17,500...
Kangaroos, marsupial mammals that have never been domesticated, can intentionally communicate with humans, according to new research led by the University...
An analysis of the skull biomechanics of Simosthenurus occidentalis, a species of giant short-faced kangaroo that persisted until about 42,000 years ago,...
Kangaroos and other macropod marsupials display left-hand preference at the population level for everyday tasks in the wild, says a team of scientists...
Australian researchers have managed to extract DNA from two extinct marsupials: a giant short-faced kangaroo (Simosthenurus occidentalis) and a giant wallaby...
According to a study carried out by scientists from Spain and the United States, members of Sthenurinae – an ancient family of kangaroos that lived until...
A new study published in the journal Biology Letters shows that red kangaroos use their muscular tail just like a leg.
The red kangaroo (Macropus rufus)...
