There are so many koalas in some places that food is the issue – while elsewhere populations are threatened by habitat loss. And there are no easy fixes ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos—which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms—may have been ...

New research could help conserve the world’s rarest marsupial. New findings from (ECU) could strengthen efforts to safeguard one of the planet’s rarest marsupials. The Gilbert’s potoroo, a critically ...

The paper also said that giant kangaroos probably did not rely on jumping for every movement because that would have been inefficient for their large bodies.

Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

Despite their enormous size, giant ancient kangaroos may have been capable of hopping in short, powerful bursts.

In the early 1980s, a small group of scientists and conservationists faced a dark realization. The northern hairy-nosed ...