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

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

New fossil discoveries reveal that colossal kangaroos from Australia’s Ice Age could still bounce across the landscape, despite their size.

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

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...