The adorable marsupial (not a bear!), with its grey fur and strong clawed feet, often lives in forests and feeds on eucalyptus leaves. While they breathe air, fur seals often stay at sea ...

Wombats are a solitary and pudgy nocturnal marsupial. They live in Australia's grasslands and eucalyptus forests in burrows and tunnels that they dig with their claws. Little blue penguins are ...

Australia's cutest marsupial is now "functionally extinct." Experts at the Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) announced on May 10 that they believe no more than 80,000 koalas are left on the continent.

Rather, it's an enigmatic and tiny mammal found only in the deserts of Australia—the marsupial mole. There are two related species of the marsupial mole. Notoryctes typhlops, or southern ...