Kangaroos can hop faster without using more energy. A new study explains how posture and tendons make this possible.

Researchers have taken a leap in understanding how kangaroos can increase their hopping speeds without incurring an associated energetic cost. Their study, published in eLife, shows that changes in ...

Musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus). Credit: Wikimedia commons. Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. In the remnant ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is affiliated with the Australian Numismatic Society. On the Australian one dollar coin, ...

Researchers have taken a leap in understanding how kangaroos can increase their hopping speeds without incurring an associated energetic cost. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Study shows how kangaroos achieve greater energetic efficiency when hopping fast, presenting new approaches for further investigation into kangaroo and macropod kinematics Researchers have taken a ...