A rare tree kangaroo born in The Bronx at the end of December has finally come out of the marsupial pouch. The tiny Matschie’s tree kangaroo, considered endangered by International Union for ...

Mammals with pouches, like kangaroos and koalas, have a radical evolutionary history that suggests they are "more evolved" than previously thought, a new study finds. Marsupials used to be ...

Still, wombat butts are one of nature’s wonders, if only because they poop in cubes and control their marsupial pouch with their sphincter muscle.

Far down the evolutionary scale of mammals are the marsupials (pouch-bearers). The Western Hemisphere’s only pouch-bearer, the opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a ...

A joey would live in its mother's pouch for about 12 weeks The scientists want to learn how the marsupial evolved to look so similar to a dog, given that their last common ancestor lived about 160 ...

MUCH work has been done on delayed implantation in macropod marsupials and it is now known ... arid the entry of the neonatus into the pouch. Although copulation will now occur, the new foetus ...

The Virginia opossum is North America’s only marsupial (a mammal that carries its young in a pouch) and is native to the southern U.S. However, it’s been staging an invasion into Canada ...

The thylacine earned its nickname of Tasmanian tiger for the stripes along its back - but it was actually a marsupial, the type of Australian mammal that raises its young in a pouch. The group of ...

Marsupials are one of three types of mammals and are distinctly characterized by having pouches, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Some kangaroo species include red ...