At first glance, an extinct kangaroo's skeleton looks fairly similar to eastern grey bones, "but it's very, very chunky", Dr Warburton says. And telltale clues within the remains of a Procoptodon ...

For the last two years, scientists in Australia have spent over 60 hours in a pitch black cave trying to retrieve the fossilised skeleton of an extinct kangaroo. The team had to face incredibly ...

"This is an extinct kangaroo everyone is walking on," he told his friends. A hole in the floor of the cave turned out to be the eye socket of a huge kangaroo. More than 10,000 megafauna bones have ...

Scientists have discovered three extinct giant kangaroo species in Australia and New Guinea, furthering our understanding of the evolution and distribution of these marsupials. All three species ...

Living kangaroos are the only large mammal to use hopping on two legs as their main form of locomotion. The extinct cousins of modern kangaroos could also hop, according to a study of their ...

The banded hare-wallaby is now the closest thing we have to giant kangaroos, but this research could also be used to prevent the wallaby's own extinction. Did you know that up to 40,000 years ago ...

New research reveals a third of Australia’s freshwater fishes are at risk of extinction. That means 35 species should be ...

The largest survey of Australia's freshwater fish suggests about one third should be listed as threatened species.