Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in ...

Genetic analyses have solved the riddle of where a marsupial mole fits on the tree of life: It’s a cousin to bilbies, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.

The brush-tailed bettong once inhabited most of Australia, but these days it lives in a tiny fraction of its former range.

There is only one animal on earth that poops cubes. How does it do this and is there any benefit? Read on to find out the ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds ...

Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia's most bizarre mammals. Known as "itjaritjari" to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and featuring prominently in their tales, the marsupial mole is rarely ...

A New Hampshire senator, with help from a fifth grade class, is trying to make the Virginia opossum the Granite State's ...

They are the second-largest marsupial after the red kangaroo, but what is really unusual about the wombat is the shape of its poop. Wombats had long baffled scientists as the only animal in the ...

or the northern marsupial mole, is found in the deserts of northwestern Australia. It is also called kakarratul by the local Indigenous Martu people. Until recently, these elusive animals have ...