The Virginia opossum is the only opossum species found in the United States and Canada. Opossums have the smallest ...

By examining the genetic makeup of bones at a museum, researchers at the University of Western Australia can confidently say ...

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However, as it turns out, marsupials have evolved more than any other mammal from their ancestral form. This discovery is outlined in a new paper published in Current Biology.

To study the semelparous marsupials, researchers examined two antechinus species: dusky antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii) and wild agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis) both captive and wild.

Marsupials have long been considered the intermediate step in evolution between egg-laying and placental mammals, because they give birth to highly underdeveloped young similar to an embryonic ...

All living marsupials — such as wallabies, kangaroos and opossums — all originated in South America, a new genetic study suggests. Yep the animals most famous for populating Australia actually ...

Scientists find that male antechinuses, rodent-like animals from Australia, will forgo sleep for sex during their breeding season, after which they die. By Miriam Fauzia Scurrying along the dense ...

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Marsupials are anything but a boring group of mammals. Kangaroos have some of the most powerful kicks in the animal kingdom, wombats are known for their poop cubes, koalas have a toxic diet, and ...