For the first time, scientists have recorded how baby dunnarts, tiny carnivorous marsupials from Australia, reach their ...

Scientists have captured remarkable footage of the young of a mouse-sized marsupial, called a fat-tailed dunnart, making their way to their mother’s pouch soon after being born ...

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...

A meat-eating marsupial the size of a plump dog with the tree-climbing prowess of a possum once roamed Australia's rainforests. Scientists say it's a new species of marsupial lion, which they've named ...

While exploring the region around an archaeological site in the Peruvian Andes, researchers discovered a never-before-seen creature. The tiny, big-eyed marsupial — named Marmosa chachapoya — is a ...

It's obviously not often that scientists get good news regarding regionally extinct creatures. Once an animal has been seemingly wiped from its natural home, the window of opportunity for saving it in ...

Fur is a defining characteristic of mammals, coming in a wide variety of colors and patterns -- thanks to a world-first study, we now know which genes make a marsupial's coat black or grey. Fur is a ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full skeleton of the predatory, prehistoric animal known as the “marsupial lion” which roamed Australia thousands of years ago. Using recently ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Most modern marsupials are pretty cute and cuddly—koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, sugar gliders and even some types of possums are pretty sweet. But the ancient marsupial lions are far from ...

Once widespread across the deserts of inland Australia, the Crest-tailed Mulgara was largely wiped out by invasive rabbits, cats and foxes. The cutesy carnivorous marsupial hasn't been seen in the ...

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