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

A mother provides kangaroo care to her baby at Kenyatta National Hospital /FILEBusia government has adopted Kangaroo Mother Care to reduce the neonatal mortality rate. The county has a mortality rate ...

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky ...

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

They believe the answer may lie with the small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a ...

Muskies are the last living member of the family that branched off early in kangaroo evolution. In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a ...

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 ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small Australian mammals lost to cats and foxes, but all hope is not gone. If ...

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky ...

To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky rat-kangaroo.