Many animal species consist of members that will only mate once before dying. This reproductive strategy, often seen in fish and insects, can make evolutionary sense when the species is able to ...

Which group of mammals has the more 'primitive' reproductive strategy -- marsupials, with their short gestation periods, or humans and other placental mammals, which have long gestation periods? For ...

Eastern gray kangaroo genetic material was used for the study, which produced embryos via IVF. Thennicke via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Australian scientists successfully created the world’s ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 12, 2020) The herbicide atrazine can interfere with the health and reproduction of marsupials (including kangaroos and opossums) kangaroo, Virginia opossum, according to ...

Australian scientists successfully produced the first kangaroo embryo in the world through in vitro fertilisation, which is seen as a groundbreaking discovery for species conservation. Since the ...

A kangaroo egg about to be injected with a single sperm cell. Image: University of Queensland. A UQ-led team has successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation. The ...

Every year, antechinus marsupials get it on until the males all drop dead. Researchers classified two new species of Dusky Antechinus, mouse-like creatures that engage in suicidal reproduction, and ...

Pregnancy can sometimes feel like it lasts forever, but for an Australian marsupial called a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), pregnancy truly never ends. Researchers recently discovered that female ...

Researchers exposed the adult female tammar wallabies to atrazine contaminated water throughout pregnancy, birth and lactation to help establish the extent of harm being caused by the chemical. They ...

Their complex reproduction has made it hard for scientists to apply the gene-editing tool—until now. Mice: check. Lizards: check. Squid: check. Marsupials … check. CRISPR has been used to modify the ...