Australia is home to 25 million people and ... a rescued Lumholtz’s tree kangaroo. Unlike their earthbound cousins, tree kangaroos have strong forearms that help them clamber up trunks and ...

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia, West Papua, and Papua New Guinea. Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest ...

Just a few hopping kangaroo species can be found in Australia today, along with a handful of wallaroos and wallabies and a couple of tree-dwellers. But for millions of years, a whole bunch of ...

They live primarily in trees and are smaller than Australia’s better-known red kangaroo. An adult tree kangaroo weighs between 20 and 25 pounds (9–11 kilograms). The joeys are about the size ...

tree-kangaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several others. Macropods are native to Australia, New Guinea, and some nearby islands. Before the European settlement of Australia, about 65 species of ...

Kangaroo Island in South Australia has been likened to a Noah's Ark for its unique ecology. But after fierce bushfires tore through the island this week, there are fears it may never fully recover.