These Marsupials Were Thought Extinct for 7,000 Years, Until Now ...

By Jenny Denton The ampurta, a blond or brown guinea pig-sized marsupial, is distinctive for its short, fat tail that becomes ...

Lost marsupials have been found alive in New Guinea after 6,000 years, highlighting hidden biodiversity and conservation ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...

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 ...

"Marsupial joeys are born at a much earlier stage in development than typical mammals," said co-first author Dr. Olga Dudchenko, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once widespread across the deserts of inland Australia, the Crest-tailed Mulgara was largely wiped out by invasive rabbits, cats and foxes. The cutesy carnivorous marsupial hasn't been seen in the ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...