They believe the answer may lie with the small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread. Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger ...

In this study, Laurikainen Gaete and colleagues used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric giant kangaroo Protemnodon ... rather than distant rock formations.

For this reason, it is thought muskies may move in a similar way to early kangaroo ancestors. Studies on kangaroo evolution will often mention locomotion in muskies, but only in passing.