Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

Now, a paper published in the American Journal of Primatology provides new insights into how and when bipedal locomotion ...

How did humans evolve into the big-brained, bipedal ape that we are today? This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying ...

In his book, The Fossil Trail; How We Know What We Think We Know About Human Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, Dr. Tattersall favors the explanation that upright bipedalism "was ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

But in a small, lightly built bipedal predator leaping into the air ... it was possible to stay airborne for short distances. The evolution of feathers with an asymmetrical shape, like those ...

“These results support the hypothesis that a shift to an asymmetric-gait-dominant locomotor repertoire was a functional prerequisite in the evolution of bipedal hopping in macropodoids.