A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the ...

A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the evolution of modern ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

Musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus). Credit: Wikimedia commons. Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. In the remnant ...

New fossil discoveries reveal that colossal kangaroos from Australia’s Ice Age could still bounce across the landscape, despite their size.

The evolutionary history of kangaroos, which are the only hopping animals with body masses greater than 5kg, cannot be understood without considering the origins of their diverse locomotor behaviours, ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of the continent’s most prolific marsupial groups. They have analysed the ...