When fire swept across 95% of its habitat, a few handfuls of this already endangered marsupial endured. Here’s what we ...

The woylie, also known as the brush-tailed bettong, once roamed across much of Western Australia. Like kangaroos, the hopping ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) along with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) have been working together to help protect the world's rarest marsupial by ...

It's obviously not often that scientists get good news regarding regionally extinct creatures. Once an animal has been seemingly wiped from its natural home, the window of opportunity for saving it in ...

The largest known marsupial to live was about the size of a minivan and had jaws with the bite-force of a garbage compacter.

And now for something completely different. It was so surprisingly warm last Friday that our hopes for a white Christmas seemed to be blown to smithereens. I was home sick and I had gotten up at about ...

Long a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way. Researchers have found that the ...

The marsupial mole is rarely seen above ground, with only five to 10 sightings a decade An Alice Springs shoemaker spotted the one on the road that circles Uluru Marsupial moles are completely blind, ...

A meat-eating marsupial the size of a plump dog with the tree-climbing prowess of a possum once roamed Australia's rainforests. Scientists say it's a new species of marsupial lion, which they've named ...

They are an extraordinary and now rare group of animals but Earth has had some formidable marsupial carnivores. These pouched killers have included lions, wolves, and even sabretooths. Today, the only ...