The study is a fascinating and encouraging reminder of that most beloved and quotable parable in biology: that life, uh, ...

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

Climate change, which is an obstacle for most organisms, acted as a boon for these marsupials that recovered during a ...

A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct. Scientists, including those from the Curtin University, found the new ...

Researchers discovered a completely new species of bettong as well as two new subspecies of woylie while analyzing fossils. The post Newly identified Australian marsupial species may already be ...

Scientists discovered a new marsupial species and woylie subspecies, but extinction threatens their fragile survival.

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new study offers a potential roadmap for its rediscovery. The desert rat-kangaroo, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

A team of UNSW scientists has found fossil remains of three carnivorous marsupials that lived millions of years ago and were previously unknown to science. Marsupials have called Australia home ever ...

The first vaccine to protect endangered koalas from chlamydia has officially been approved in Australia. The vaccine was ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from Flinders ...