#red kangaroo

[ljesak]

[mindblowingscience]

550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop

Just probably not as far as today’s marsupials.

Kangaroos have likely been hopping across the planet for much longer than experts previously believed. Not only that, but the ancestors of today’s marsupials landed their leaps while growing much larger than their descendents. For thousands of years, the planet’s largest hopping animal has remained Australia’s red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus). A male “Big Red” easily reaches over five feet tall, weighs 200 pounds, and travels around 37 mph at a pace of up to six feet per leap. But as big as they are today, their evolutionary relatives were even heftier. During the Ice Age around 45,000 years ago, giant kangaroos in the Sthenurinae subfamily often grew over double the size of present-day marsupials. Paleontologists estimate the largest, Procoptodon goliah, stood 6.5 feet tall and weighed upwards of 550 pounds.

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[pacificremains]

Reposting some oldies - adult and baby red kangaroo skulls. Did you know kangaroo teeth keep growing, conveyor belt style?

[vintagewildlife]

Red kangaroos By: Natural History Photographic Agency From: Encyclopedia of the Animal World: Large Plant-Eaters 1988

[earthen-were]

custom red kangaroo pendant 🦘

🔺 6 red earthenware, black underglaze

[daybreakthing]

red kangaroo! ⸻ a presentation term under kangaroo (link) for muscular feminine individual who are girls/gals/women!

symbol source (link)!

for anon!

tagging @radiomogai!

[weirdchristmas]

Don't you always think of your old marsupial friends on Christmas morning?

[critter-captures]

Red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus), family Macropodidae (macropods)

ZooParc Overloon, taken September 2025