Marsupials are mammals known for carrying their young in a pouch. This pouch is called a marsupium, which is a Latin word ...

The Australian Reptile Park in Somersby, Australia, recently shared a video via Storyful of their eastern grey kangaroo joey Jack leaving his mother's pouch to hop on his own for the first time.

Kangaroo reproduction allows the mother to ... appropriate to their developmental stage. The inside of the mother’s pouch is hairless, which allows the tiny joey to remain in contact with ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: At first glance, a kangaroo's pouch looks like nothing but a built-in baby sling. But if you peeked inside, you'd see it's far more complex than a ...

The Matschie's tree kangaroo is endemic to the Huon Peninsula ... crawls to a teat located inside the mother's pouch, where it attaches itself to nurse. The majority of the infant's development ...

The infant immediately climbs into its mother's pouch and does not emerge for two ... water sources—both of which are boons to kangaroo populations. Many millions of these animals roam Australia ...

At first glance, a kangaroo's pouch looks like nothing but a built-in baby sling. But if you peeked inside, you'd see it's far more complex than a simple pocket. It has to be because the joey ...