Today, Australia is home to four species of kangaroo, which is one of several animals with a pouch.The red kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, western grey kangaroo, and the antilopine kangaroo all ...

Scientists have identified three new species of giant kangaroo that lived from 5 million to 40,000 years ago, one of which is around double the size of the biggest kangaroos alive today.

The largest would have been up to 170kg, twice the size of a red kangaroo today Australia might be famous for its unusual and dangerous wildlife, but five million years ago scientists say things ...

All Protemnodon species went extinct on mainland Australia 40,000 years ago, and the reason isn't clear, especially because many species differed in size, habitat and other markers. Researchers ...

An artist’s impression of the newly described fossil species Protemnodon viator and its relative Protemnodon anak, compared at scale to the living red kangaroo and eastern gray kangaroo. CREDIT ...

But after findings of whole fossilised kangaroo skeletons in 2013, 2018 and 2019, scientists have been able to find out more about the ancient species. Image source, Flinders Media Team Image caption, ...

A previously unknown genus of primitive giant kangaroo that once roamed the rainforests of New Guinea has been described by a team of paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia. The ...

We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived Published: April 15, 2024 1:48am EDT Isaac A. R. Kerr , Flinders University ...

These unassuming footprints may have belonged to a giant striding kangaroo that lived around 50,000 years ago. ( ABC TV ) There were two potential explanations for the trackway, Dr Camens says.

Giant kangaroo twice the size of a human roamed Australia 5 million years ago, study reveals. ... The largest species would be about twice as large as an adult male red kangaroo, ...