Deep in the rainforests of Papua, Indonesia, two marsupial species that scientists believed had been extinct for roughly ...

Deep in the mountain forests of western New Guinea, the Tambrauw people have long spoken of a dark-furred cuscus that holds ...

Australia-based scientists said Thursday they had produced the world's first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization and hailed it as a key step towards saving endangered marsupials. The ...

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 ...

Once thought as the least evolved of the mammals that roam our world, new research shows that marsupial evolution might actually be further along than even humans. This old bias towards the creatures ...

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All animals need sleep. When humans or animals don't get enough, it can lead to trouble paying attention, irritability, and other ill effects. In a new study, researchers have made the surprising ...

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 ...

Their complex reproduction has made it hard for scientists to apply the gene-editing tool—until now. Mice: check. Lizards: check. Squid: check. Marsupials … check. CRISPR has been used to modify the ...

All animals need sleep. When humans or animals don’t get enough, it can lead to trouble paying attention, irritability, and other ill effects. And yet, researchers reporting in the journal Current ...