Using today's species as a reference, the researchers estimated the size and width of the tendons needed to withstand the ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

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

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg ...

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

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

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big ...

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

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of the continent’s most prolific marsupial groups. They have analysed the ...