kangaroo

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The head and raised arms of a doll stick out of the left side of the hoodie’s kangaroo pocket.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

"I hate losing, so that's my motivation," said Alcaraz, who plans to have a tattoo of a kangaroo to mark his achievement.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Brennan's team-mate Menno Huising of the Netherlands was one of the riders forced to abandon the race, having been injured in the kangaroo incident.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

They suggest that brief, rapid bursts of hopping may have helped some giant kangaroo species avoid predators, including members of an extinct group of marsupial lions known as Thylacoleo.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Crows flapped off an occasional jackrabbit carcass; a black-and-white shrike sat on a fence post with a dead kangaroo rat dangling from under its talons; cows lumbered moodily off the dirt path into the sagebrush.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols