Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

Next, the researchers wanted to test these ideas. To do so, they used one of the most unique characteristics of marsupials – their pouch. “Marsupial joeys are born at a much earlier stage in ...

Object Details Author Ashwell, Ken W. S Contents Classification, evolution and behavioural ecology of Australian marsupials / K.W.S. Ashwell -- Overview of marsupial brain organisation and evolution / ...

Find the study “Two-stage evolution of mammalian adipose tissue thermogenesis” published in Science at: DOI: 10.1126/science.adg1947 FACTS on brown fat: What does this unique heater organ do?

The experts in marsupial evolution and ecology have compared the biting ability of different small animal skulls to understand the kinds of food the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris ...

Australia’s giant extinct marsupials may be ID’d using tiny bone bits The continent was teeming with enormous kangaroos, wombats, and tapir-like marsupials only 50,000 years ago. Tom Hawking ...

Many of the country’s marsupial species are on the brink of disappearing. The Tasmanian devil, for example, has lost roughly 80 percent of its population in the last 30 years.