Most people don't get the chance to see baby kangaroos with their own eyes, but that's usually a good thing. Mama kangaroos keep their babies, or joeys, safe in their pouches until 6 to 8 months of ...

Which animals cannot walk backwards? Explore the unique biology of kangaroos and emus that keeps them moving forward.

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky ...

Hopping has evolved multiple times in the animal kingdom. Think grasshoppers, frogs, rabbits. But maybe the bounciest of the group would be kangaroos, which can hop and hop and hop with amazing ...