Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% ...

The brush-tailed bettong once inhabited most of Australia, but these days it lives in a tiny fraction of its former range.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...