The fat-tailed dunnart is native to Australia’s arid scrublands and largely unknown outside of science. It may also be the key to saving some of the continent’s most endangered species.There is an ...

Mammal evolution has been flipped on its head, according to new research that suggests marsupials are the more evolved mammals. By estimating how the common ancestor of mammals reproduced and ...

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 ...

The marsupial frog and Wollumbin hip-pocket frog are the only two Australian frog species known to show parental care. And ...

What is a marsupial? -- Reproduction and development -- Opossums of the Americas : cousins from a distant time -- Predatory marsupials of Australasia : bright-eyed killers of the night -- Bandicoots : ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic elements that drive the rapid development of marsupials’ facial features. The study in fat-tailed dunnarts, native to Australia, is published today in eLife as the ...

“We are now refining techniques to collect, culture and preserve marsupial eggs and sperm.” John Rodger, a marsupial reproduction expert not involved in the study, tells the Guardian ’s Donna Lu that ...