The naked mole-rat was first. On August 9, 2006, at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska, Joel Sartore focused his camera ...

A few teeth barely bigger than grains of rice sat unidentified in an Australian cave for millions of years, and what researchers discovered when they finally analyzed them threatens to upend ...

What can a handful of ancient teeth on a cave floor in the Australian outback tell scientists about animals that lived millions of years ago? A lot, as it turns out. When researchers from the ...

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 ...

When you think of carnivorous marsupials, you probably picture the Tasmanian devil or perhaps a spotted-tailed quoll. But these famous predators are only the largest members of a remarkable family of ...

Kangaroos. Koalas. Wallabies. Wombats. Australia is crawling with fantastically weird marsupials, which arrived ‘down under’ around 55 million years ago as the supercontinent of Gondwana was breaking ...

A new study from Edith Cowan University (ECU) confirms that the presence of fungal food resources is important for supporting the reintroduction of two threatened marsupials to the Shark Bay World ...

The newly discovered species, named Miyumba chrisdickmani, was a tiny carnivorous marsupial weighing only about 30 grams, roughly the size of a modern mouse. Scientists identified the species from six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The paradise tree snake can glide up to 20 meters through the air. It doesn't need wings to do so. Photo: Getty Images A snake ...

While teeth play a greater role in health than many realise, current dental solutions for tooth loss are temporary and subpar. What if we could regrow our teeth instead? Some surveys suggest upwards ...