Researchers have uncovered genetic elements that drive the rapid development of marsupials' facial features. Subscribe to our ...

An International team, including scientists from Carnegie Museum of Natural History, have discovered the most primitive and oldest know relative of all marsupial mammals. Pittsburgh -- An ...

Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental mammals to diversify and conquer many cold regions of our planet. New research shows that the typical mammalian heater ...

The May 9, 2018 photo taken at the zoo in Wroclaw, Poland, shows a tiny bear cuscus with its mother, very rare marsupial mammals that live on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The zoo authorities say ...

New research has shown for the first time that Australian marsupials are contaminated with synthetic "forever chemicals," ...

Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials are even weirder than we give them credit for. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mammals ...

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 ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 68, No. 7 (July 2014), pp. 1085-1096 (12 pages) Offspring sex ratios in mammals vary in potentially adaptive yet unpredictable ways. An integrative approach ...

A small endangered marsupial is dying for sex — literally. The male northern quoll — a carnivorous mammal about the size of a small domestic cat — is walking so far and sleeping so little in its ...

In a protected forest of eastern Australia, one of the country's "rarest mammals" wandered past a trail camera, its pouch ...

An ancient mammal the size of a badger may have used its bone-crushing canines and powerful bite to take down little dinosaurs, researchers have found. In fact, the little guy could chomp down with ...