When picturing the marsupials of the Australian outback, kangaroos, koalas and Tasmanian devils are likely to spring to mind. But these iconic creatures represent only a small fraction of the many ...

It was about six inches long from head to tail, a furry, shrew-like tree-climber that ate insects and maybe worms, and probably hid out during the day to stay away from marauding dinosaurs. This small ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium in Highland Park has a new resident — a wallaby joey, born to mom Ava. A wallaby is a marsupial, a pouched mammal in the kangaroo family. When they are young, they are ...

Eutherian: placental mammal; gives birth to a sexually-differentiated fetus Metatherian: pouched mammal (marsupials); gives birth to a "living" (viviparous) young in the embryonic stage (ie., not ...

Sure, basketball players can jump. But can they jump like the giant pouched rat, which leaps 5 feet in the air? Not only that, the mega-rodent, weighing in at around 3 pounds, can sniff out land mines ...

Lampreys have a terrifying reputation: They guzzle the blood of their prey, earning them the nickname of “vampire fish.” An Australian man has long been looking for the once-abundant pouched lamprey, ...