The largest marsupial to ever exist that we know about was called a “Diprotodon.” It kind of looked like a wombat, but it weighed 3 tons, so imagine a wombat the size of 23 large wombats put together.

F ew mammals sleep as deeply as the ampurta. When the blonde, rat-like marsupial returns to its burrow after a night of ...

On a damp, mist-laced slope of the eastern Andes, a small creature with reddish-brown fur and a black facial mask peeked from the edge of a pitfall trap. It was August 16, 2018, and biologist Silvia ...

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 ...

Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials are even weirder than we give them credit for. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mammals ...

The fossil of a tiny creature found in northeast China is helping scientists determine when mammals split into different groups: those with babies that develop inside their mothers and those that ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of marsupial in Australia’s bushland, closely related to the kangaroo. Researchers have identified a new species of bushland marsupial that is closely related ...

While exploring the region around an archaeological site in the Peruvian Andes, researchers discovered a never-before-seen creature. The tiny, big-eyed marsupial — named Marmosa chachapoya — is a ...

Scientists discovered a new animal in Peru’s Andes, highlighting biodiversity gaps and the need for conservation in Río ...