Kangaroos haven't always hopped
BBC Wildlife|August 2023
Hopping as a method of high-speed endurance wasn't used by all large kangaroos
- Megan Shersby
Kangaroos haven't always hopped

THINK OF AUSTRALIA'S ICONIC kangaroos and you'll probably think of them hopping along with their large and muscular back legs, a method of locomotion known as saltation. However, recent research published in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology has explored the locomotory evolution of kangaroos and their relatives (including wallabies, wallaroos and tree-kangaroos) across the fossil record, and found that the majority of the larger forms did not employ the high-speed endurance hopping of today's large kangaroos.

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