Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

At first glance, eastern quolls seem like ordinary marsupials. Native to Tasmania, Australia, they’re the size of house cats ...

Beneath the deserts of Australia, a tiny and mysterious mammal glides through the sand-the marsupial mole. There are two ...

Marsupial moles have “vestigial” eyes, which means they still have eyes, but they don’t work. ©Lydekker, Richard / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – Original / License ...

Marsupial moles have a variety of unique adaptations that help them survive in their harsh environment. For example, their eyes are tiny and located beneath their skin, making them functionally blind.

Australia’s bilbies (greater bilby shown with mouse for size) with its functional eyes and big ears doesn’t look like the marsupial mole but turns out to be one of the mole’s closer living ...

This may boost survival rates of pouch young in low-oxygen underground environments. It also indicated that bandicoots and bilbies are the closest living relatives of marsupial moles. Tunnel vision ...

The ancestors of the Australian marsupial mole conquered their subterranean niche around 60 million years ago. Over time, their unused eyes, for example, became unnecessary - and were eventually ...

Marsupial moles have a variety of unique adaptations that help them survive in their harsh environment. For example, their eyes are tiny and located beneath their skin, making them functionally blind.