A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

A large trove of bones found in Bolivia is giving researchers a new look at the social lives of ancient marsupials. These ratlike animals lived in large packs, a very uncommon scenario in modern ...

On September 7, 1936, the death of a zoo animal named Benjamin marked the last time the world would ever see a living Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. With Benjamin, we lost untold knowledge about this ...

A Long Island animal rescue shelter is calling the recent seizure of a wallaby on Coney Island “the tip of the iceberg” and is building a marsupial rescue center in anticipation of more such exotic ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Oliver Griffith receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Many women realise they are pregnant before they’ve even done the test – perhaps feeling a touch of nausea, or tender, ...

A fossil found in the Riversleigh World Heritage area near the border with the Northern Territory was originally thought to be part of a different genus of marsupial lions, but recent discoveries ...

An endangered marsupial on the brink of extinction has been given a chance to survive inside a predator-free zone near Andamooka Station in outback South Australia. The Arid Recovery team — an ...

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. By Anthony Ham If ...

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MOUNT ZION, Pa. — Update, 2:20 p.m. (Wednesday): The wayward wallaby was captured by a game warden Wednesday morning, Game Commission Southeast Region Information and Education Supervisor Dustin ...