They believe the answer may lie with the small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread ... "Perhaps it started with an ancestor that moved about on all ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and ...

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

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 ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and ...

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, in the ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and closely ...