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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 ...

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

The evolutionary history of kangaroos, which are the only hopping animals with body masses greater than 5kg, cannot be understood without considering ...

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