Woylies are small marsupials native to Australia. These rabbit-sized rat kangaroos are critically endangered and have disappeared from much of their historical range in mainland Australia.

It's small but fierce and feisty, with big eyes, long hind legs and a pointy nose. A carnivorous marsupial, it comes out at night to hunt its favorite foods: insects and spiders. It's rare for ...

To do that, they plan to put DNA from the last thylacines into the eggs of a fat-tailed dunnart, a small marsupial that looks like a mouse. 5 fun facts about thylacines Females held up to four ...

They took genetic samples from a single museum specimen, a dead female southern marsupial mole. It turns out the mole's closest relatives are two small, nocturnal marsupials, the bandicoot and the ...

According to the study's results, the mole's closest living relatives are two small nocturnal marsupials, the bandicoot and the bilby, What's more, genetic evidence suggests that the population of ...

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 ...