For the first time, scientists have been able to produce kangaroo embryos through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an important milestone in being able to replicate this across hundreds of species of ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

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Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small Australian mammals lost to cats and foxes, but all hope is not gone. If ...

A startling kangaroo attack in Queensland, Australia, has prompted officials to issue public safety warnings, highlighting the growing challenge of keeping both people and wildlife safe as communities ...

CANBERRA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said on Tuesday. Scientists said they had for the first ...

Kangaroos may have a reputation for being cute and cuddly animals, but the males of the species can be pretty intimidating. In fact, if you happen to run into one of these muscly males, you wouldn’t ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.