Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...

However, both are marsupials within the family Diprotodontia, sharing a common ancestor. This family also includes koalas and possums, representing diverse adaptations to different ecological niches ...

Because these species, despite being isolated and having marsupial pouches, still look a lot like their counterparts with a common ancestor. The marsupial mole looks and behaves similarly to any ...

Because these species, despite being isolated and having marsupial pouches, still look a lot like their counterparts with a common ancestor. The marsupial mole looks and behaves similarly to any mole ...

A southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) seen eating a gecko, left, and centipede, right, in the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory. Image credits: Mike Gillam/AUSCAPE. Dr Frankenberg said the ...

This suggests that in the reptile-like ancestor of mammals micromicro fusions were common (as they were also in the crocodilian ancestor). These blocks of fused microchromosomes have been preserved in ...

Recent research, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, suggests that LUCA (an acronym for "last universal common ancestor") emerged much earlier than previously thought—just a few hundred million ...

There are two major groups of living mammals. The placentals (including us) and the marsupials (pouched mammals who give birth to tiny young). Both groups evolved from the same common ancestor ...

Mammals have been discovered to have a secret superpower: nearly all species glow in the dark. Before now, it was thought that only Australian marsupials such as platypuses, wombats, Tasmanian ...

These hard-scrabble animals include the earliest relatives of humans, dogs, rabbits, cats and any mammal that gives birth with a placenta. Placental mammals comprise over 6,000 species with a wide ...