Australia is home to some of the world’s most unique and fragile wildlife. Among them is the Gilbert’s potoroo – a small, ...

A Virginia opossum with a big personality and an even bigger fan base finally has a name—Cosmos! After receiving more than 10 ...

Australia's most endangered marsupial and rarest marsupial in the world, the Gilbert's potoroo, is back thanks to 30 years of ...

According to the study's results, the mole's closest living relatives are two small nocturnal marsupials, the bandicoot and the bilby, What's more, genetic evidence suggests that the population of ...

Wombats are a solitary and pudgy nocturnal marsupial. They live in Australia's grasslands and eucalyptus forests in burrows and tunnels that they dig with their claws. Little blue penguins are ...

They're nocturnal creatures who spend their night ... They have a gestation period of 38 days — the longest of any marsupial — and carry their young in a pouch for up to four months.

They took genetic samples from a single museum specimen, a dead female southern marsupial mole. It turns out the mole's closest relatives are two small, nocturnal marsupials, the bandicoot and the ...