The iconic Australian kangaroo hops with its powerful hind legs across the outback or in front of your car at dusk.
But scientists say that not so long ago , extinct large kangaroos likely used other modes of transportation, like walking on two legs or all fours.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and York in the UK and Uppsala University in Sweden used fossil evidence and a new analysis of shin and ankle bone data to find out howthe signature hop of the famous Qantas Airlines 'flying kangaroo' that"many people regard as the pinnacle of kangaroo evolution", actually represents just one of the many ways these astonishingly mobile animals evolved to be successful in different habitats.
"Large kangaroos were much more diverse as recently as 50 thousand years ago, which may also mean that the habitat in Australia then was rather different from today."
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