In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.

When you think of kangaroos, you usually imagine the six-foot-tall kind, hopping across wide open spaces throughout Australia. After all, it is this version of the marsupial that nature series and ...

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 ...