Aug 14, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Australia have discovered the fossilized remains of a new species in the extinct kangaroo genus Dorcopsoides. The greater forest-wallaby...

Apr 23, 2025 by News Staff

Large-bodied extinct kangaroos of the genus Protemnodon were not intrepid travelers who bounded across the plains, but rather homebodies, who did not journey...

May 23, 2024 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Tasmania and Western University have experimentally demonstrated that kangaroos, wallabies and other Australian marsupials...

Mar 25, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

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,...

Jun 18, 2015 by News Staff

Kangaroos and other macropod marsupials display left-hand preference at the population level for everyday tasks in the wild, says a team of scientists...

Jan 15, 2015 by News Staff

Australian researchers have managed to extract DNA from two extinct marsupials: a giant short-faced kangaroo (Simosthenurus occidentalis) and a giant wallaby...