"There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order," center Director Jenny Graves told reporters in Melbourne.

"We thought they'd be completely scrambled, but they're not. There is great chunks of the human genome which is sitting right there in the kangaroo genome," Graves said, according to AAP.

Humans and kangaroos last shared an ancestor at least 150 million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans diverged from one another only 70 million years ago.

Kangaroos first evolved in China, but migrated across the Americas to Australia and Antarctica, they said.

"Kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago," Graves said.

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Kangaroo genes close to humans - Yahoo! News

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I understand what it says, but how does it make sense that roos cross the Americans to get to Australia and Antarctica?

Yes I realize that there is probably archaeological evidence but still seems odd.

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"Kangaroos first evolved in China, but migrated across the Americas to Australia and Antarctica, they said."

Of course this was a hundred million years ago when the continents were probably different from they are today.. Note that some Kangaroos went to Antarctica.. so it was probably warmer then and joined to South America.

"Pangaea began to break up about 200 million years ago, first into two lesser supercontinents—Gondwanaland to the south (comprising what were to become South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and India) and Laurasia to the north (North America, Europe, and most of Asia)—and then into the individual continents, which dispersed. This episode of continental drift is sometimes called “Wegenarian drift”, after the theory's originator."



Antarctica was a central part of the former supercontinent Gondwanaland (see also Plate Tectonics). As Gondwanaland broke apart during the late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic eras (some 100 million years ago) to form the continents of the southern hemisphere, Antarctica drifted from the Tropical Zone to its present polar position.

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Antarctica - MSN Encarta

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Maybe that's why we sometimes get hopping mad.

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