You may think that you know everything there is to learn about kangaroos. But do you know what they eat, how fast they can hop, or which hand they favor? If not, you’re in the right place. We have 10 ...

Kangaroos hop because it is an efficient way to travel, allowing them to cover long distances quickly while conserving energy. This is possible because the large, stretchy tendons in their hind legs ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. The musky ...

Quick Take Kangaroos are adaptable and survive across forests, grasslands, deserts in Australia and Tasmania. Kangaroos are ...

Hopping has evolved multiple times in the animal kingdom. Think grasshoppers, frogs, rabbits. But maybe the bounciest of the group would be kangaroos, which can hop and hop and hop with amazing ...

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 ...