A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

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 ...

Mythical ‘carnivorous koala’ once did indeed roam Australia, scientists find - Cause behind one of the planet’s biggest ...

Contrary to the docile koalas, the mythical drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials in Australian ...

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 ...

It’s a small, weathered tooth—nothing flashy at first glance. But the scientists who found it buried in Brazil’s Tremembé Formation know better. This single canine belonged to a predator that once ...

Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way. Researchers have found that the ...

The Appearance of Marmosa Chachapoya The marsupial has a delicate body only four inches long, though its tail nearly doubles its overall length. Its reddish-brown fur provides camouflage in the dense ...

The ferocious Marsupial lion ruled the plains of Australia around 45,000 years ago THE FIRST complete skeleton of the terrifying Marsupial lion reveals the huge predator was an adept hunter that got ...

The kangaroo’s twisted marsupial family tree is now in order thanks to — you guessed it — jumping genes. Genetic evidence shows that a South American ancestor gave rise to all Australian marsupials, ...

The fossil of a tiny creature found in Northeast China is helping scientists determine when mammals split into different groups: those with babies that develop inside their mothers and those that ...

What makes a marsupial, a marsupial? A discussion on the historical biogeography and biological evolution of marsupial mammals. Dr. Robert Voss is a professor at Richard Gilder Graduate School and the ...