Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% between 1999 and 2010 Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been ...

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

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new study offers a potential roadmap for its rediscovery. The desert rat-kangaroo, ...

An adorable but critically endangered species of marsupial is evolving to be more vulnerable to predators, going in the opposite direction to what scientists want it to in order to survive. These ...

A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct. Scientists, including those from the Curtin University, found the new ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of ...

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 ...

Scientists in Australia have successfully produced the world’s first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a feat they hailed as a “ground-breaking achievement” that could one day ...

Australia-based scientists said Thursday they had produced the world's first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization and hailed it as a key step towards saving endangered marsupials. The ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from Flinders ...