Ancient kangaroos could not hop, they walked

Giant kangaroos which are now extinct could not hop and used a more rigid body posture to move their hind limbs one at a time, says a study.

The 'short-faced', large-bodied sthenurine kangaroos - a now extinct relative to modern-day kangaroos - first appeared in the middle Miocene and became extinct in the late Pleistocene era.

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