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 ...

Once thought as the least evolved of the mammals that roam our world, new research shows that marsupial evolution might actually be further along than even humans. This old bias towards the creatures ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CN) – A new study paints the picture of an extinct 2,200-pound marsupial tapir that roamed the Australian continent for the last 25 million years and was unlike any living mammal previously studied.

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 ...

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