most of these large animal species went extinct, including all of the short-faced kangaroos and some of the long-faced kangaroos. And the question is — why? “It really does come down to two ...

All these kangaroos lived alongside an array of other animals. "We had this marsupial that was the size of a rhino," Arman says. "We had a marsupial lion. We had all sorts of crazy things." Then, ...

Most, though not all of these, were sthenurines or short-faced kangaroos. Long-faced kangaroo species (macropodids) lived alongside sthenurines, and survive around Australia today. Along with ...

A small marsupial species has been saved from near-extinction thanks to the ongoing work of a conservation group. The brush-tailed bettong, which resembles a tiny kangaroo and similarly keeps its ...