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An Australian team of recreational cavers and park rangers excavated a nearly complete short-faced kangaroo skeleton in Nightshade Cave. Reading time 4 minutes Pitch-black darkness. Crushing squeezes, ...

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 grey kangaroo.

For decades, scientists have debated a simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer: could Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos actually hop like the ones alive today? Modern kangaroos are ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final extinction of ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

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