While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

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 ...

Australia’s unique marsupial diversity and the urgent need ... which continues through further research. Also Read | South Africa marks historic opening of the largest Hindu temple in the ...

so marsupial moles have also had to evolve to survive in low-oxygen conditions. Incredibly, many of these adaptations are shared with the "true" moles found in Africa, Eurasia and North America ...