Tagged Kangaroos

Study finds extinct Kangaroos never hopped, they walked

Oct 16, 2014

A professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University, Christine Janis, together with her colleagues has stated that ancient kangaroos never hopped like their modern brethren, and that they actual...

The extinct Giant Kangaroos probably did not hop at all

Oct 15, 2014

The giant Sthenurus, dead for 30,000 years, was three times the size of the modern-day kangaroo and probably didn't hop at all. With a leap of the imagination, the researchers were able to visualise how the gia...