RashaKamel"The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 grams and looks a bit like a potoroo. It's part of a lineage that extends back to before kangaroos evolved their distinctive hopping gait.
Unlike their bigger relatives, muskies can be seen out and about during the day, foraging in the forest litter for fruits, fungi and invertebrates".
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-kangaroo-doesnt-roos-evolved-quirky.html
Researches find the only kangaroo that doesn't hop—and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait
In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that's the last living representative of its family.