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 ...

As if marsupials weren’t weird enough, they just got even weirder.

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 ...

Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental mammals to diversify and conquer many cold regions of our planet. New research shows that the typical mammalian heater ...

The animals — a pygmy long-fingered possum and a newly identified ring-tailed glider — are examples of rare "Lazarus species" that reappear after vanishing from the scientific record. Each species has ...

Marsupials may have richer social lives than previously thought. Generally considered loners, the pouched animals have a wide diversity of social relationships that have gone unrecognized, a new ...

Infant marsupials and monotremes use a connection between their ear and jaw bones shortly after birth to enable them to drink their mothers' milk, new findings in eLife reveal. This discovery by ...

Their complex reproduction has made it hard for scientists to apply the gene-editing tool—until now. Mice: check. Lizards: check. Squid: check. Marsupials … check. CRISPR has been used to modify the ...

Every year, antechinus marsupials get it on until the males all drop dead. Researchers classified two new species of Dusky Antechinus, mouse-like creatures that engage in suicidal reproduction, and ...