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 ...

Hopping has evolved multiple times in the animal kingdom. Think grasshoppers, frogs, rabbits. But maybe the bounciest of the group would be kangaroos, which can hop and hop and hop with amazing ...

Musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus). Credit: Wikimedia commons. Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. In the remnant ...

The evolutionary history of kangaroos, which are the only hopping animals with body masses greater than 5kg, cannot be understood without considering the origins of their diverse locomotor behaviours, ...