They spend most of their time in trees. Tree kangaroos primarily eat tree leaves. They also consume flowers, grass shoots, ferns, moss, and bark. Female tree kangaroos give birth to one offspring ...

The big, male kangaroos have to eat a lot of plants to maintain their daily caloric needs. Unlike a carnivore that can get all the protein it needs from eating once a week, kangaroos munch on ...

Bennett's tree kangaroos, one of Australia's most mysterious marsupials, have long eluded researchers. Our new study, ...

Perhaps they were used to grab branches, bringing leaves within eating distance. The closest living relative of the Giant Short-faced Kangaroo is probably the Banded Hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus ...

Bouncing around on their giant hind feet, seed-eating San Bernardino kangaroo rats are highly adapted to southwestern deserts and the natural flood cycles found there. Though these kangaroo rats ...

If a change in climate then reduced the availability of these plants, this could have led to short-faced kangaroo extinction. Meanwhile, the grazing (grass-eating) long-faced kangaroos were mostly ...