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Researches find the only kangaroo that doesn't hop—and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait

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Musky rat-kangaroo ( Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only 500 grams and looks a bit like a potoroo.

Unlike their bigger relatives, muskies can be seen out and about during the day , foraging in the forest litter for fruits, fungi and invertebrates.

Hopping evolved once in macropodoids, four times in rodents, and probably once in an extinct group of South American marsupials known as argyrolagids.