Forgotten marsupial makes unprecedented return home after being on the brink of disappearing: 'Extinction has now been headed ...

Extremely Rare Gorgeous Marsupial Mole With Blond Hair Spotted In Western Australia ... instead, they use their nose and forehead as a ram to burrow their way through.

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

Marsupial moles are also close relatives of the eastern barred bandicoot (shown). JJ Harrison (CC BY-SA 3.0) Bilbies and bandicoots do not look very much at all like their mole cousins.

Meet the planigale, the world's smallest marsupial with a big spirit. 'Though she be but little she is fierce' indeed. Meet the planigale, ... “Their heads are really, really flat from the nose to the ...

The marsupial mole is distinctive in its appearance and is completely blind, with no visible eyes. It has "silky" golden fur, a pink bulbous nose and spade-like claws for burrowing up to 80 ...

Marsupials are fascinating creatures with their own built-in pouches. These are animals like kangaroos, possums, and koalas. Although they are mammals, their pregnancies are super short, lasting ...

The monito del monte, a marsupial in Patagonia, has the ability to slow down its bodily functions to survive winters. Studying this process could help scientists understand human metabolism and ...

Additionally, they found that the way marsupials develop is actually far more changed from our common therian ancestor than the way that humans and other placental developing mammals have changed.

Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Using genetic advances, scientists want to resurrect the striped marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, which ...

This showed that marsupials have changed more from than ancestor than placentals have. 'For a long time, people have treated marsupials as 'lesser mammals', which represent the intermediate stage ...