Marsupials may have richer social lives than previously thought. Generally considered loners, the pouched animals have a wide diversity of social relationships that have gone unrecognized, a new ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown branch of the marsupial family tree, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how Australia's unique mammals evolved. Published in ...

To better understand patagium evolution, the team focused on marsupials. That is because the ability to glide has developed repeatedly, using similar anatomical changes, in closely related marsupials ...

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 ...

Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental mammals to diversify and conquer many cold regions of our planet. New research shows that the typical mammalian heater ...

Rogue teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have turned decades of thinking on marsupial evolution "on its head", researchers say. Teeth and jaw fragments from Riversleigh in north-west Queensland ...

Though I don't blog about the topic with the breadth and depth of individuals such as Brian Switek or Darren Naish I do take some interest in natural history. This is the domain which was my original ...

University of Queensland research has revealed features of early human brain development are mimicked in the brains of marsupials. Lead author Dr. Rodrigo Suárez from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute ...

Research has revealed features of early human brain development are mimicked in the brains of marsupials. University of Queensland research has revealed features of early human brain development are ...