Aboriginal and European Australians have spent centuries clearing open tracts of land and establishing water sources—both of which are boons to kangaroo populations. Many millions of these ...

The Matschie's tree kangaroo is endemic to the Huon Peninsula on the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea. Matschie's tree kangaroos live in mountainous cloud forests at elevations of up to 11,000 ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A mother kangaroo and her joey hop across Main Street to graze on a scruff of grass growing near a gas pump.

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Pitfall traps have gobbled up many a kangaroo bounding through the night. One day in 1969 a fledgling fossil ...

Keentan, or the Kangaroo Game (Australia): Inspired by the ginormous jumps—up to six feet high—of kangaroos, this Aboriginal run-pass-catch game traditionally was played using a rolled-up hide ...