Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small potoroids, close relatives of kangaroos, demonstrate this transition by using ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

Some smaller species of rodent also hop. The researchers said they hoped to find fossils of ancient marsupials to better understand the evolution of modern-day kangaroos. Their findings were ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

No other marsupial that moves on all fours is known ... dominant locomotor repertoire was a functional prerequisite in the evolution of bipedal hopping in macropodoids.” Combined with further ...

No other marsupial that moves on all fours is known to use this ... focus on that and will be informed by key fossil discoveries from early periods in kangaroo evolution.