At first glance, eastern quolls seem like ordinary marsupials. Native to Tasmania, Australia, they’re the size of house cats and have brownish gray or black coats with white spots. Ben Alldridge But ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major challenge [has been] discovering bones that contain [enough] collagen to ...

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like ...

Marsupials are anything but a boring group of mammals. Kangaroos have some of the most powerful kicks in the animal kingdom, wombats are known for their poop cubes, koalas have a toxic diet, and ...

However, as it turns out, marsupials have evolved more than any other mammal from their ancestral form. This discovery is outlined in a new paper published in Current Biology .

Listed as "critically endangered" on the IUCN Red List, their populations were seen to have dropped to only around 5,600 individuals by 2011, and now sit between 12,000 and 18,000.

Marsupials are evolving at a more advanced rate than other mammals like humans, despite pre-existing notions that they are more primitive, according to a new study published April 28.

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young. Close to 70% of the 334 extant species occur in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands ...

Australia-based scientists say they've produced the world's first kangaroo embryo through IVF and hailed it as a key step toward saving endangered marsupials.

Australia is famous for its diverse and unique marsupials, and infamous for its world-leading rate of mammal extinctions.. In our latest research, we have added new names to the list of Australian ...