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

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 ...

Mythical ‘carnivorous koala’ once did indeed roam Australia, scientists find - Cause behind one of the planet’s biggest ...

Contrary to the docile koalas, the mythical drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials in Australian ...

Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way. Researchers have found that the ...

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 ...

The Appearance of Marmosa Chachapoya The marsupial has a delicate body only four inches long, though its tail nearly doubles its overall length. Its reddish-brown fur provides camouflage in the dense ...

It’s a small, weathered tooth—nothing flashy at first glance. But the scientists who found it buried in Brazil’s Tremembé ...

The kangaroo’s twisted marsupial family tree is now in order thanks to — you guessed it — jumping genes. Genetic evidence shows that a South American ancestor gave rise to all Australian marsupials, ...

The fossil of a tiny creature found in Northeast China is helping scientists determine when mammals split into different groups: those with babies that develop inside their mothers and those that ...

Marsupial lions and tigers A team of researchers believe a new technique will help to dispel the idea that marsupial carnivores have been less diverse and less evolved than their placental cousins.

The largest marsupial to ever walk the Earth is also the only marsupial known to have ever migrated seasonally. Diprotodon optatum was a gigantic wombatlike herbivore that lived in what’s now ...