Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

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

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

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, scaling up the anatomy of a Big Red suggests the physical act becomes ...

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an ...

A new study using fossil evidence suggests extinct giant kangaroos, some weighing up to 250kg, were physically capable of ...

Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could ...

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 ...

Kangaroos fix their posture in a unique way to save energy while hopping at high speed, reveals new research. Scientists have taken a leap in understanding of the biomechanics of the iconic Australian ...