A detailed study of bones and tendons overturns assumptions about the mobility of Australia’s extinct mega kangaroos.

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 ...

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators ...

It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...

An ancient giant kangaroo that lived in Australia 50,000 years ago likely hopped after all, refuting past research on the ...

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

Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub with pleasing purple-pink flowers near the Gulf of Carpentaria, and hadn’t been collected since 1967.

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

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 ...