Is killing them the solution? Red kangaroos thrive in arid grasslands like these in Sturt National Park. Australia is home to 25 million people and an estimated 50 million kangaroos, which some ...

Australia's most endangered marsupial and rarest marsupial in the world, the Gilbert's potoroo, is back thanks to 30 years of ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic ... a huge flightless bird; a wombat-like creature the size of a rhinoceros; and a seven-foot-tall kangaroo with a strangely ...

Scientists in Australia have successfully produced the world’s first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a feat they hailed as a “ground-breaking achievement” that could ...

Overall kangaroo numbers fluctuate between 30 million and 60 million in Australia, and they are frequently culled to keep populations in check. The animals have a “boom and bust” population ...

Australia houses the largest variety of marsupial mammals, but it also has the highest rate of mammal extinctions. The University of Queensland experiment looked at the growth of kangaroo eggs and ...

Australia – A new study has shed light on the extinction of many of Australia’s prehistoric kangaroos, challenging beliefs that their demise was closely linked to climate change. In university ...

Animals commonly found on Kangaroo ... (Australia's version of a lobster). According to recent visitors, must-do Kangaroo Island activities include hiking and spotting seals at Flinders Chase ...