Eight complete skeletons of prehistoric marsupial lions are among an astonishing menagerie of megafauna fossils discovered in a hidden cave in Australia’s outback desert. Only partial skeletons have ...

To animals unfortunate enough to fall in, it was a death trap. To palaeontologists, it was a sensational discovery. Now the first detailed analysis of a spectacular cache of fossilised prehistoric ...

Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved ...

The world’s rarest marsupial, once thought entirely extinct, may have a second chance for survival, thanks to the DNA in its poop. Researchers are searching for ...

Phylogenetic analysis of marsupial evolution integrates molecular sequences, morphological data and fossil evidence to reconstruct the relationships and temporal radiation of metatherian mammals.