Locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos: were sthenurines hop-less monsters?

Sthenurine kangaroos (Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Macropodoidea) were an extinct subfamily within the family Macropodidae (kangaroos and rat-kangaroos). These "short-faced browsers" first appeared in the middle Miocene, and radiated in the Plio-Pleistocene into a diversity of mostly large-...

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Main Authors: Christine M Janis, Karalyn Buttrill, Borja Figueirido
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/e5b4b57253b14a739ae6adfbb26af2f5
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