"Perhaps it started with an ancestor that moved about on all fours like other marsupials, then an animal that bounded like the muskies, and finally evolved into the iconic hopping kangaroos we see ...

"These results signal a potential pathway to how bipedal hopping evolved in kangaroos," said Harvard University biologist Peter Bishop, who was involved in the work. "Perhaps it started with an ...

Kangaroos, closely related wallabies are the only large animals to hop upright on two legs A small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread, in the ...

"These results signal a potential pathway to how bipedal hopping evolved in kangaroos," said Harvard University biologist Peter Bishop, who was involved in the work. "Perhaps it started with an ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and ...