Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have identified three new species of giant kangaroo that lived from 5 million to 40,000 years ago, one of which is ...

For millions of years, giant animals or megafauna roamed the lands that are now Australia and New Guinea. Many were like much larger versions of modern animals. There was a four-metre goanna called ...

Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea.

Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs to find new food when pickings are slim. But not all kangaroos have been this way. In new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of southeastern South Australia during the Pleistocene epoch showing various plants and animals that lived ...

Palaeontologists have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method than previously thought.

Protemnodon viator believed to have weighed up to 170kg – double the size of the largest species alive today Supersized marsupials roamed the Australian continent for millennia. But until now the ...

Fossil teeth show species of protemnodon that roamed Australia between 5m and 40,000 years ago lived and died near Queensland caves Despite their immense size, species of prehistoric giant kangaroos ...

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An artist’s impression of the newly described fossil species Protemnodon viator and its relative Protemnodon anak, compared at scale to the living red kangaroo and eastern grey kangaroo.