A type of extinct kangaroo, known as the “giant wallaby,” lived during the Pleistocene era. These creatures existed around two and a half million to ten thousand years ago. Let’s Discover ...

Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene. Research hops in with a possible explanation. In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final extinction of ...

Kangaroo beginnings… and endings Kangaroos evolved from a possum-like ancestor some 20 million years ago. Then, around eight million years ago, "Australia became quite arid," says Arman.

Ancient kangaroo teeth hold clues to the role of climate change in ancient extinction In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species. New research ...

Presumed Extinct, This Desert Rat-Kangaroo May Still Be Alive In Hiding The species was previously thought to be long extinct, until mammal researcher Hedley Herbert Finlayson led the rediscovery ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final ...

Kangaroo beginnings… and endings Kangaroos evolved from a possum-like ancestor some 20 million years ago. Then, around eight million years ago, “Australia became quite arid,” says Arman.

Kangaroo beginnings… and endings. Kangaroos evolved from a possum-like ancestor some 20 million years ago. Then, around eight million years ago, "Australia became quite arid," says Arman.

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two theories suggest why.