Kangaroo Cousins?

From the UK Newspaper, The Daily Mail:

'Kangaroos are Closely Related to Humans', Scientists Claim

Humans and kangaroos are close cousins on the evolutionary tree sharing a common ancestor 150 million years ago, according to Australian researchers.

Scientists have mapped the genetic code of the Australian marsupials for the first time and found large chunks of DNA are the same...[more]

This isn't a fairy tale. But it is pretty cool. Prior to this research, we could see some degree of relation between kangaroos and humans, the way we can see some degree of relation between humans and anything else that gets as far as Class Mammalia. (Kangaroos then split into Marsupials, while humans split to Eutherians, or placental mammals). Of course, now that I'm in the throes of morning sickness, I'm beginning to think the kangaroos got the better deal...