Kangaroo: a marsupial from the family Macropodidae. Kangaroos belong to the Macropodidae family, which means ‘big foot’ in Latin. This is in reference to the species’ unusually large hind feet. The ...

Kangaroo facts from the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. The site also features pages on the kangaroo’s neighbors the dingo and emu. Features downloadable PDF reports on the ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

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