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 experts in marsupial evolution and ... When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the robust features ...

bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the last living representative of its family. The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 ...

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 ...

Musky rat-kangaroos are a distant ancestor of the larger kangaroo species that famously roam the country's outback. Photo: AFP Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian ...

Kangaroos, closely related wallabies are the only large animals to hop upright on two legs A small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread ...

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 ...