Kangaroos are iconic Australian animals who have long been used as a symbol within the country to represent moving forward.

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

See how opossum moms support their joeys through every stage of life with strength, care, and an incredible maternal instinct ...

Marsupials are fascinating creatures with their own built-in pouches. These are animals like kangaroos, possums, and koalas. Although they are mammals, their pregnancies are super short, lasting ...

Marsupial pouch Marsupials are uniquely characterized by their pouches, with the term "marsupium" from Latin defining this feature. Among marsupials, newborn joeys emerge at a remarkably early ...

A rare tree kangaroo born in The Bronx at the end of December has finally come out of the marsupial pouch. The tiny Matschie’s tree kangaroo, considered endangered by International Union for ...

Marsupials are mammals known for carrying their young in a pouch. This pouch is called a marsupium, which is a Latin word that means, of course, “pouch.” The mother and joey shown here appear ...

Kangaroos are pretty peculiar on the outside: They're the world's largest marsupials, they hop to get around, and they use their tails as a fifth limb. But they're also pretty unusual on the ...

Marsupial moles are also close relatives of the eastern barred bandicoot (shown). JJ Harrison (CC BY-SA 3.0) Bilbies and bandicoots do not look very much at all like their mole cousins.

Far down the evolutionary scale of mammals are the marsupials (pouch-bearers). The Western Hemisphere’s only pouch-bearer, the opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a ...

“The brush-tailed phascogale leads a short, fast life. After mating in late autumn to early winter, the male perishes. As he ...