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

Research on bipedal robots has amassed over the years, and as the saying goes, if these Imagineers saw further it was by standing on the shoulders of larger robotic platforms. However, the Project ...

For the researchers, the most unique feature of the footprints was that they belonged to a bipedal reptile. This meant that ...

Musky' marsupial could solve hopping kangaroo mystery Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger ...

Chimpanzees, the closest relatives to human beings, are capable of brief bipedal walks, but their usual means of getting about on the ground is knuckle-walking -- standing on their hind legs but ...

China's LimX Dynamics launched a versatile bipedal robot last year with modular foot ends to walk or roll around as needed. Now the company has demonstrated its agility chops by having the squat bot ...

A musky rat-kangaroo in the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland. Photo by Amy TschirnTo understand why kangaroos hop - a rarity ...

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 ...