A tiny, ferocious marsupial hiding in the rocky Australian outback went unnoticed for decades, lost among thousands of museum ...

The new marsupial species were found in northern and central Australia Australian scientists have made a surprising discovery that gives long-term hope to the survival of the marsupial species.

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it's an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...

Footage provided by a compassionate individual showcases her determined efforts to aid a marsupial trapped beneath a fence.

Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way. Researchers have found that the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When fire swept across 95% of its habitat, a few handfuls ...

Hidden in the eastern Andes, scientists stumbled on a marsupial that had never been described before. It’s small, reddish-brown, and wears a natural bandit mask across its face. The animal, now named ...

It’s been 30,000 years since the last of the marsupial lions prowled for prey in Australia, but scientists continue to discover new species of the largest meat-eating mammals that ever lived on the ...

Two tiny marsupials once written off as extinct for around 6,000 or even 7,000 years have been found alive in dense rainforest, turning a remote corner of New Guinea into a global conservation focal ...

It’s always fun when science tragically, mournfully deems a species extinct and then, years later, rains that back by offering whoopsie-daisy when they find that it wasn’t extinct after all. Instead, ...

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way. Duke University ...