Australia’s own “Easter bunny,” a burrowing marsupial with rabbit-like ears, is even more crucial to the ecosystem than we thought.. The greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), also known as the ...

The bilby is an endangered Australian marsupial that has been run out of its habitat by humans and rabbits. Courtesy of Australia's Queensland State Government. hide caption ...

The bilby is a nocturnal marsupial and digs complex burrows to provide shelter from high summer temperatures and protection from predators. It is estimated there are about 9,000 bilbies left in ...

These include the oldest known bilby and bandicoot fossils, which will allow us to understand better the evolution of these enigmatic marsupials. Pieces of a very incomplete puzzle. The first fossil ...

Marsupial at Sydney's Taronga Zoo named after young prince. April 20, 2014— -- Call it a meeting of the adorable minds. Prince George met a bilby named after him while visiting the Taronga ...

Experts have said that rare footage of an endangered marsupial in outback Australia is a sign that native animals are beginning to recover from years of feral cat predation. Feral cats threaten ...

The small nocturnal animals with long, rabbit-like ears were last seen in New South Wales in 1912.

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, watch as their son Prince George looks at a Bilby which has been named after him at Taronga Zoo in Sydney April 20, 2014.

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...