Koalas make some interesting sounds. Discover why creatures like koalas snore, and if its a dangerous sleeping habit.

You may know a ton of fun facts about animals, but we bet you haven't heard these jaw-dropping truths Are you up on your fun facts about animals? For every extraordinary creature on the planet, there ...

The Long-footed Potoroo, a small marsupial native to southeastern Australia, is critically endangered, with fewer than 2,000 individuals remaining. This shy species, found between New South Wales and ...

Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to be locally extinct ...

Biochemical ‘DNA methylation’ marks are found across the genome in vertebrate animals, but in the early embryos of placental mammals, such as mice and humans, they are largely erased in a ...

Koala and Kangaroo. Image via Canva via Pexels Though both koalas and kangaroos are marsupials, carrying their young in pouches, they belong to different taxonomic families that diverged millions of ...

A small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial weighing about the same as a loaf of bread, in the Atherton Tablelands, a highland region of northern Australia. AFP ...

Australia’s bilbies (greater bilby shown with mouse for size) with its functional eyes and big ears doesn’t look like the marsupial mole but turns out to be one of the mole’s closer living ...

What is the Virginia opossum? The Virginia opossum is North America’s only native marsupial. Contrary to their name, they can be found from Costa Rica to Ontario, Canada. At about 16 inches long ...

The animal's also known as a thylacine. ANDREW PASK: So thylacine is a marsupial, but it looks almost exactly like a canid or a dog. It was the only marsupial apex predator that we had.

With a pointy nose and plenty of sharp little teeth, the endangered Julia Creek dunnart is only found in a tiny patch of the world, across about 30,000 square kilometres in North West Queensland.

The mainland subspecies of the rufous hare-wallaby, the mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus) weighs little more than a kilogram, rarely grows larger than 60 centimetres from nose to tail tip and resembles a ...