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

Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% ...

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.

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

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 ...

Marsupial moles, elusive Australian mammals, are confirmed as true marsupials closely related to bilbies and bandicoots.

Getty A small marsupial species has been saved from near ... as well as the widespread decimation of the animal's woodland and grassland habitats. The species' population size dramatically shrank ...

Marsupials have split from placental mammals ... Using bioinformatic tools on UCP1 sequence information from many animals, the researchers reconstructed the ancient UCP1 of the stem placental ...

Image credits: Mike Gillam/AUSCAPE Dr Frankenberg said the ancestors of marsupial moles were ground-dwelling animals that dug around in soil searching for food. During the course of evolution, they ...

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 ...