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For decades, scientists have debated a simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer: could Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos actually hop like the ones alive today? Modern kangaroos are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazing 'Nearly Complete' Flat-Faced Kangaroo Skeleton Recovered From Australian Cave. Scientists in Australia have managed to ...

Kangaroos are descended from giant ten-foot (three metre tall) creatures that were too heavy to hop, new research suggests. Their extinct ancestors strode around the Australian outback 100,000 years ...

The fossil, hidden underground since the Ice Age, has been brought to the surface in a precarious and meticulous mission executed by a team of intrepid scientists. “There’s not much a palaeontologist ...

There's been some real-life Indiana Jones action happening deep underground in Victoria's far east, with rare findings unveiled this week. Researchers have just released the jaw-dropping details and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 15 (UPI) --Some 30,000 years ago, kangaroos were too tall and heavy, without the proper bone structure, to hop around on their hind legs as the modern marsupials do today. They ...