Giant extinct kangaroos' preference for home over roaming may have sealed their fate

Prehistoric giant kangaroos perished massively during a period of "climate upheaval" in Australia, victims of their sedentary lifestyle when the tropical forest turned into a desert, revealed a study published on Thursday.

Here's how a change in climate made Australia's giant kangaroos vanish

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their extinction.

How giant prehistoric kangaroos were wiped out

Scientists used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric Protemnodon and its implications for the species’ extinction.

We're learning more about ancient giant kangaroos

Giant kangaroos should have giant home ranges, but researchers were shocked to find that the largest of them all, Protemnodon, was a real homebody. Habitat, not body size was the key says lead researcher, Dr Chris Laurikainen Gaete, from the University of Wollongong. Protemnodon was a genus of the giant forest kangaroos that lived until about 40,000 years ago in Sahul, the super-continent comprising Papua New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania and t…

Giant extinct kangaroos' preference for home over roaming may have sealed their fate

Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when climate change caused that home to disappear, according to a study published in PLOS One by Christopher Laurikainen Gaete of the University of Wollongong, Australia, and colleagues.

Prehistoric giant kangaroos perished massively during a period of "climate collapse" in Australia, victims of their sedentary lifestyle when the tropical forest turned into a desert, revealed a published study...