Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate upheaval" turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said ...

Bigger mammals usually roam more widely than smaller relatives, but fossils indicate this wasn’t true for extinct giant ...

Scientists have discovered three extinct giant kangaroo species in Australia and New Guinea, furthering our understanding of the evolution and distribution of these marsupials. All three species ...

Six of ten species are found in Papua New Guinea, in some of the last undisturbed rain forest habitat in the world. The Matschie's tree kangaroo is endemic to the Huon Peninsula on the northeast ...

Massive kangaroos which roamed Australia more than 40,000 years ago likely became extinct because they were “homebodies” and ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less ...

you know, did they move in mobs like living kangaroos do, did they box like living kangaroos." Now researchers are heading to New Guinea where they hope to describe another giant kangaroo.

"By creating the country's first national conservation area, the Papua New Guinea government and people ... Park Zoo and director of the zoo's Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program (TKCP).

Macropods are native to Australia, New Guinea, and some nearby islands. Before the European settlement of Australia, about 65 species of macropods existed. Six species have since become extinct.