In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a ...

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

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

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

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 ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be hiding in the vast and harsh Sturt Stony Desert of Australia. A recent ...

Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger kangaroo species that famously roam the country's outback. Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say ...

“The musky rat-kangaroo, as the most primitive living macropodoid (a group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs), can offer insight into evolution within the group ...

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

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.