Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

However, the vast majority of animals that hop are really small. The only hopping animals with body masses over 500 grams are kangaroos. And Australia used to have a lot more kangaroo species ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...