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Tiny musky rat-kangaroos hold the key to explain why 'roos hop

Earth & Climate News -- ScienceDaily · last updated
To understand why kangaroos hop — a rarity among animals — researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the last living representative of its family and part of a lineage that extends back to before kangaroos evolved their distinctive hopping gait.
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