The video shows the giant kangaroo standing upright with a smaller kangaroo nearby. Shweta Singh Updated : Apr 18, 2025, 08:55 PM IST Australia is no stranger to shocking wildlife moments, but a ...

In the tropical forests of northern Queensland, a small marsupial puzzles scientists. The musky rat-kangaroo, the last surviving member of its family, may hold keys to understanding the evolution of ...

Carolina isn't your average retiree. After seven years of devoted work, Carolina, an African giant pouched rat, had sniffed out more than 3,000 cases of tuberculosis that medical tests had missed, ...

In this study, Laurikainen Gaete and colleagues used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric giant kangaroo Protemnodon and its implications for the species's extinction.

From land mine detection to sniffing out illegally trafficked wildlife parts, a group of trained African giant pouched rats in Tanzania is proving a valuable partner for humans, Mongabay’s Lucia ...

Their inability to locate greener pastures ultimately led to their extinction. The researchers were surprised at just how geographically limited the giant kangaroo’s dining zones appeared. “Using data ...

We discovered fossilised teeth of the now extinct giant kangaroo genus Protemnodon at Mount Etna Caves, north of Rockhampton, in central eastern Queensland. Analysing the teeth gave us a glimpse ...

But whether that was true for extinct Australian megaherbivores is unclear. For the new study, published in the journal PLOS One, Gaete and his colleagues used fossil data to predict the home range of ...

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For example, the endangered giant kangaroo rat, which is native to dry habitats in California, has adapted to occasional short droughts. However, populations can plummet after multi-year droughts ...

But whether that was true for extinct Australian megaherbivores is unclear. For the new study, published in the journal PLOS One, Gaete and his colleagues used fossil data to predict the home range of ...