A small golden animal with shovel-like claws swims through the red sand of Australia's central desert in pursuit of its supper. Over millions of years, it's lost its eyes, but it is still a fierce ...

Five Australian marsupials have been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...

Australian scientists have made a surprising discovery that gives long-term hope to the survival of the marsupial species. According to a new study published in Nature's Scientific Reports journal, ...

A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped connect a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary history.

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their small endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a ...

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole. DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole The marsupial mole, an elusive creature ...

A team of UNSW scientists has found fossil remains of three carnivorous marsupials that lived millions of years ago and were previously unknown to science. Marsupials have called Australia home ever ...

All animals need sleep. When humans or animals don't get enough, it can lead to trouble paying attention, irritability, and other ill effects. In a new study, researchers have made the surprising ...

The new marsupial species were found in northern and central Australia Australian scientists have made a surprising discovery that gives long-term hope to the survival of the marsupial species.