Shocking new research shows that marsupial evolution may have gone further than other mammals, including humans.

A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells ...

Mammal evolution has been flipped on its head, according to new research that suggests marsupials are the more evolved mammals. By estimating how the common ancestor of mammals reproduced and ...

Marsupials may have richer social lives than previously thought. Generally considered loners, the pouched animals have a wide diversity of social relationships that have gone unrecognized, a new ...

The discovery of a fossil hints at the existence of an animal that researchers say could be the missing link in the understanding of evolution of marsupials in Australia.

Marsupials are evolving faster than humans, other animals – study "We often have this bias that ours is the group that evolution is directed towards, but that's not how evolution works ...

Woylies are critically endangered marsupials that are evolving to be even less adept at avoiding the predators that threaten them.

Sugar gliders, small marsupials that in some places are kept as pets, have the ability to glide through the air thanks to a membrane connecting their forelegs to their hindlegs. The membrane ...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Genomics and Evolution, The University of Melbourne Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this ...

The researchers investigated how wing flaps develop in two tiny mammals, the marsupial sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) and a microbat: Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata). The ...

Australia’s isolation for millions of years has been a paradise for marsupial evolution. With few placental mammals to compete with, wombats, koalas, and kangaroos flourished and diversified.