On Sunday, Nov. 10, Bindi, 26, and her husband Chandler Powell shared a behind-the-scenes look at Powell introducing their ...

Wallabies are a type of marsupial from the same family as grey kangaroos. The females have a pouch used to nurse their babies ...

After the last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity over 80 years ago, this marsupial predator might be a few steps away from a return to the world of the living.

Monotremes, found only in Australia and New Guinea, are unique mammals that lay eggs, combining features of reptiles and ...

The last known Tasmanian tiger—the top predator of the southern Australian island—died in 1936. But the U.S.-based bioscience company Colossal wants to bring back the species from extinction.

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 ...

I am the epitome of an animal lover but I have never been a huge fan of zoos. What I do love are up-close-and-personal animal encounters, especially when they ...

Marsupials are born at a point that's roughly only halfway through normal mouse development—all the organs are in place, but haven't matured—and finish developing in their mother's pouch.

Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete genome of the extinct thylacine ...

Scientists may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian ... powerful jaws and a back-opening pouch to carry young, according to the ...

who hop around with smirks on their faces and joeys in their pouches. Rottnest Island is famous for its quokka population. If ...

As marsupials, pygmy possums give birth to extremely underdeveloped neonates, who spend more time developing in the pouches of their mothers. Suckling from her until they are about two months old.