A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole. DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole The marsupial mole, an elusive creature ...