Marsupials are mammals known for carrying their young in a pouch. This pouch is called a marsupium, which is a Latin word ...

The study authors suggest that P. viator inhabited the same parts of arid-central Australia that are currently home to the red kangaroo. This giant kangaroo had long limbs that allowed it to hop ...

Is killing them the solution? Red kangaroos thrive in arid grasslands like these in Sturt National Park. Australia is home to 25 million people and an estimated 50 million kangaroos, which some ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

Seven people fell sick in a Salmonella outbreak in Australia in 2024 after eating kangaroo meat. A Salmonella Muenchen ...

As the only living macropodoid (the group that includes kangaroos, wallabies, potoroos and bettongs) that doesn’t hop, they can provide a crucial insight into how and when this iconic form of ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

The cause – and the cost – of a salmonella outbreak which gave seven Red Centre residents diarrhoea has been revealed in a ...

A gut-wrenching photo showing a dead kangaroo that was trapped on a fence and sadly burned to death has become one of the most powerful images to come out of the Australian bushfires. The graphic ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...

Eastern gray kangaroos roam the forests of Australia and Tasmania and prefer to live among the trees, though they do take to open grasslands for grazing. Gray kangaroos, red kangaroos, and ...