A 13-million-year-old saber-toothed marsupial skeleton discovered during paleontological explorations in Colombia is the most complete specimen recovered in the region Leila Nilipour Recent ...

Mammal evolution has been flipped on its head, according to new research that suggests marsupials are the more evolved mammals. By estimating how the common ancestor of mammals reproduced and ...

"In doing that, one of the challenges was trying to determine what they are eating and where those resources can be found." ...

Once thought as the least evolved of the mammals that roam our world, new research shows that marsupial evolution might actually be further along than even humans. This old bias towards the creatures ...

When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1978, the geneticist had an ambitious plan for the soft-eyed, hamster-sized animals. He wanted to ...

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Koalas may be the pickiest marsupials around: They evolved to feed almost exclusively on the leaves of Eucalyptus trees, and they are highly selective when it comes to which species and even which ...

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 ...

The males of several species of insect-eating marsupials have a very unusual life history. They mature quickly, often in less than a year. Then, during a short and frenzied breeding season, they mate ...