Rabbits are placental mammals, and kangaroos are marsupials, i.e.
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Not at all.
No. They share no common ancestor. Kangaroos are not related to rabbits in any way.
Lol it goes even deeper than that.
I wonder if the first European explorers of the land down under referred to kangaroos and wallabies as giant rabbits and … Apart from the obvious differences (being size, shape, the fact that kangaroos are marsupials and rabbits are placental mammals, etc) Rabbits have much larger ears in comparison to body size. Gigantic kangaroos that used to inhabit Australia resembled enormous rabbits and walked on two legs similar to humans rather than hopping, a new study says.
… pouched mammals.
Macropods.
Kangaroos are marsupials, and rabbits are placental mammals. The kangaroo's closest relatives are wallabies and wallaroos, which are essentially smaller versions of kangaroos. I know that Lagomorphs and Macropods aren't related beyond their earliest mammal ancestor, but it's interesting the great superficial resemblance between the two families. Shockingly, frogs …
0 1 0. They arn't even related. Together they comprise the genus macropus, one of 11 genera in the taxonomic family macropodidae, which means "big feet" and references one of the universal features of marsupials in this category. Kangaroos are related to all other marsupials, albeit to various degrees. 6 years ago. The two are not even remotely related, except that they are both mammals.
1 decade ago. I wonder why those two families evolved such similar features for their wildly different niches. Lv 7. I mean, they are both vertabrates, but thats about it.
Kangaroos usually hop on …
In 1979 at the Kangaroo Court in Sydney, they decided that they WERE NOT related immediately, but most likely 2nd or 3rd cousins.
Kangaroos and rabbits are not related even remotely.
Login to reply the answers Post; B!nd! Rabbits and kangaroos are not even in the same group of mammals - rabbits are placental mammals and kangaroos are marsupials.