Through the hole, a tiny pink nose emerged. The nose didn’t belong to a rat, but to a brushtail possum, a nocturnal marsupial found along Australia’s east coast. The couple assumed the animal ...

Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal found only in the deserts of Australia – the marsupial mole. There are two related species of the marsupial mole. Notoryctes typhlops, or southern ...

Notoryctes are true marsupials instead of some not-quites ... a raised pink fleshy “shield” structure like a big button nose on a stuffed animal. The relatives they left behind in daylight ...

In the remote Queensland outback, a marsupial bigger than a mouse but smaller than a rat scampers inconspicuously among the shrubbery, across dry, red dirt. With a pointy nose and plenty of sharp ...