Mammal evolution has been flipped on its head, according to new research that suggests marsupials are the more evolved mammals. By estimating how the common ancestor of mammals reproduced and ...

Eastern gray kangaroo genetic material was used for the study, which produced embryos via IVF. Thennicke via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Australian scientists successfully created the world’s ...

Australian scientists successfully produced the first kangaroo embryo in the world through in vitro fertilisation, which is seen as a groundbreaking discovery for species conservation. Since the ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

For the first time in history, scientists have successfully created a kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization (IVF)—a ...

What is a marsupial? -- Reproduction and development -- Opossums of the Americas : cousins from a distant time -- Predatory marsupials of Australasia : bright-eyed killers of the night -- Bandicoots : ...

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 ...