Koalas became tree specialists ... revealing just how inventive evolution can be. For centuries, marsupials have shared the land with Australia’s Indigenous peoples, who hold these animals ...

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The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) forms part of an international consortium that is preparing the Tree of Sex ...

Australian tree frogs today make up over one third of all known frog species on the continent. Among this group, iconic ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early ...

Marsupial and placental mammals diverged from ... and feeding habits. This widespread evolutionary phenomenon is known as convergence.

New kinds of forests appeared, offering novel habitats for what would become tree-dwelling mammals ... during much of the Tertiary, and marsupial mammals thrived and diversified there, while ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

In a study published today in Nature, the team at the Crick investigated, for the first time, epigenetic changes in embryos of a marsupial, which diverged from eutherians 160 million years ago.

This research demonstrates tree frogs were present in Australia 30 million years earlier than previously thought, living alongside Australia’s earliest known snakes, songbirds and marsupials.