Evolving a dig-in-the-dark mole lifestyle comes with radical anatomical changes, making it hard even to guess the animal’s closest relatives. That’s why the true identity of Australia’s most enigmatic ...

THE pouch of the sexually mature, non-pregnant common Australian phalanger or possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) shows a marked reaction towards the administration of gonadotropic hormone obtained from ...

A rare tree kangaroo born in The Bronx at the end of December has finally come out of the marsupial pouch. The tiny Matschie’s tree kangaroo, considered endangered by International Union for ...

ALTHOUGH sex ratios favouring males at birth are well known in eutherian mammals 1,2, we do not know of any published data showing a disparity between males and females in marsupial pouch young beyond ...

When orphaned baby animals arrive at a rescue, the race is on to try to recreate the comfort they should have been receiving from their animal mother. Sometimes that is making a baby formula specially ...