Previous research indicated that kangaroos weighing more than about 350 pounds would rupture their ankle tendons if they tried to hop. The largest of the Ice Age kangaroos, Procoptodon goliah, which ...

An ancient giant kangaroo that lived in Australia 50,000 years ago likely hopped after all, refuting past research on the species, according to a new study. Scientists previously believed that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Sammy J: Meet Procoptodon goliah. This is a scientific artist's interpretation of how it might have ...

Described: Richard Owen at London’s Natural History Museum in 1846. THIS WAS THE largest kangaroo ever to have bounded across Australia. Its hind feet showed extreme adaptation to hopping with a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A/Prof Natalie Warburton: Hello, I'm Natalie Warburton and I'm an associate professor at Murdoch ...

Kangaroos hop, right? Well, not all of them. Scientists said this week that a biomechanical and statistical analysis of fossil bones of a group of huge extinct kangaroos shows that the largest of the ...

Introducing the hip hopping Procoptodon, essentially a gigantic prehistoric Kangaroo. Carrying up to TWO passengers, in a first for ARK creatures, the Procoptodon is able to cover great distances and ...