Discover the largest ever prehistoric possum fossil found in Texas.

Mothers have the hardest job in the world. Caring for babies is full-time work, and this labor extends to the animal world.

A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 million ...

I found an adorable new creature to obsess over! Meet the yapok, also known as a "water opossum" - the only marsupial adapted ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

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

The scientists discovered a new species of ancient near-marsupials, or Swaindelphys, while analyzing fossils from Texas’ Big ...

The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago. The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient ...

An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how ...