Ancient giant kangaroos could hop to it when they needed to, hindlimb study suggests

Giant ancestors of modern-day kangaroos—which previous research has estimated could weigh up to 250 kilograms—may have been ...
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Giant prehistoric kangaroos were likely able to hop, fossil study suggests

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...
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Researches find the only kangaroo that doesn't hop—and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait

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 ...
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Kangaroos fix their posture to save energy at high hopping speeds, study shows

Researchers have taken a leap in understanding how kangaroos can increase their hopping speeds without incurring an associated energetic cost. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...
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Kangaroos fix their posture to save energy at high hopping speeds

Study shows how kangaroos achieve greater energetic efficiency when hopping fast, presenting new approaches for further investigation into kangaroo and macropod kinematics Researchers have taken a ...