Boulenger’s backpack frog uses one of the strangest reproductive strategies in the amphibian world. Females carry fertilized ...

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 ...

Was the iconic, extinct creature that once roamed Australia a marsupial wolf or a Tasmanian tiger? By examining bones, researchers have shown that the thylacine was an ambush-style predator that was ...

A team of Australian scientists has discovered a new species of marsupial lion which has been extinct for at least 19 million years. The findings are based on fossilized remains of the animal's skull, ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

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