Ready to read about some cool creatures? Then hop to it! Like some sort of stuck-together, make-believe beast, a kangaroo seems too strange to be true. It has huge hind legs and tiny front ones. Its tail is almost as long as...

A nature documentary I saw a few years ago has come back to haunt me in this first year of parenthood. It was set in the Australian outback, and I'm sure it has a sensible title. But I've been reading a lot of Beatrix...

Indonesia is returning 17 rare pygmy kangaroos to the Papuan rain forest after rescuing and acquiring them in recent years from illegal traders and private zoos, officials said Monday. It is unknown how many of the mammals, which can grow up to a yard long...

A 6-foot-tall kangaroo that surprised residents as it bounded about five miles through rural central Indiana during the weekend died Monday after authorities used a tranquilizer dart to capture it.Hancock County Animal Control officers helped capture the Australian marsupial, an escaped pet named Skippy, early...

In the following essay, Samuels surveys the maritime symbolism of D. H. Lawrence's novel Kangaroo, seeing in the work's sea imagery the irresistible forces of nature, society, and the unconscious.