To better understand patagium evolution, the team focused on marsupials. That is because the ability to glide has developed repeatedly, using similar anatomical changes, in closely related marsupials ...

Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental mammals to diversify and conquer many cold regions of our planet. New research shows that the typical mammalian heater ...

A mini koala meandered through central Australia about 25 million years ago. The newly discovered species belonged to a community that contained the oldest known members of the koala family – and it ...

Sugar glider gliding through the air using its patagium, a thin skin membrane that allows some mammalian species to soar through the air. HOUSTON – (April 24, 2024) – People say “When pigs fly” to ...

An adorable but critically endangered species of marsupial is evolving to be more vulnerable to predators, going in the opposite direction to what scientists want it to in order to survive. These ...

A connection between ear and jaw bones in marsupials and monotremes shortly after birth provides hints at the evolution of these bones in early mammals Infant marsupials and monotremes use a ...

Bilbies and bandicoots are less famous than koalas and kangaroos, but several species of these small Australian marsupials are highly threatened. Most of us are unlikely to encounter the nocturnal ...

'Until now, there’s been no record of koalas ever being in the Northern Territory; now there are three different species from a single fossil site.' By Laura Baisas Published Sep 8, 2023 11:00 AM EDT ...

Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct group of Australian megafauna, had strange bodies and lifestyles unlike any living species. Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct group of Australian megafauna, had ...

Developmental constraints can have significant influence on the magnitude and direction of evolutionary change, and many studies have demonstrated that these effects are manifested on ...