Using advanced dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), scientists have revealed that many extinct kangaroo species were far more adaptable in their diets than previously thought. This finding ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia ... analysis techniques to study microscopic wear patterns on fossilized kangaroo teeth. The findings, published in Science, suggest that many species ...

combining innovative techniques with expertise in palaeontology to deepen our understanding of Australia’s unique prehistoric ecosystems. The research focused on fossil kangaroo species from the ...

Kangaroo beginnings… and endings Kangaroos ... Then, about 40,000 to 65,000 years ago, most of these large animal species went extinct, including all of the short-faced kangaroos and some ...

Australia's most endangered marsupial and rarest marsupial in the world, the Gilbert's potoroo, is back thanks to 30 years of ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, nearly two dozen kangaroo species vanished as part of a great extinction event. Science reporter Ari Daniel says hundreds of prehistoric teeth may now help ...

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... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.