Marsupials are mammals known for carrying their young in a pouch. This pouch is called a marsupium, which is a Latin word ...

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

As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the last living representative of its family.

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

The only hopping animals with body masses over 500 grams are kangaroos. And Australia used to have a lot more kangaroo species, many of them quite large. Despite the abundance of fossil kangaroos, ...

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new ...

Seven people fell sick in a Salmonella outbreak in Australia in 2024 after eating kangaroo meat. A Salmonella Muenchen ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

Thank you for helping to get the Inquiry on Kangaroo management in SA up! Please make your submission to the Inquiry by 18th ...

BRISBANE, Australia – A kangaroo was among the rescued after ... and it was left in the hands of animal carers, who oversaw the entire operation to make sure things didn’t get too stressful ...