#macropodidae

Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies (Petrogale xanthopus), family Macropodidae, South Australia

Australian Brushturkey aka Gweela (Alectura lathami), family Megapodidae, order Galliformes, eastern Australia

A yellow-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) grooms itself at Brachina Gorge, Australia

Cape York Rock Wallaby Petrogale coenensis

A species of rock-wallaby restricted to Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Queensland, Australia, from the Musgrave to the Pascoe River. It is a member of a group of seven very closely related rock-wallabies, all found in northeastern Queensland.

They really are! They don't have an inaturalist page so I'll use the wikimedia commons photos.

Protemnodon viator was a large macropod that lived in what is now western and southern Australia during the late Pleistocene, around 50,000 years ago.

Although it was built more like a giant wallaby, ancient mitochondrial DNA has shown that its closest living relatives are actually modern grey kangaroos.

Estimated to have weighed about 170kg (~375lbs) – twice as much as the largest modern red kangaroos – it would have stood up to 2.4m tall (~8') on its hind legs. But unlike its living relatives Protemnodon's limb proportions indicate it wasn't a very efficient bipedal hopper, instead probably mostly moving with a bounding or galloping quadrupedal gait.

Its forelimb anatomy also suggests it was a good digger, and strongly curved claws on its hind feet may have helped provide grip on uneven ground.

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