Sugar gliders, small palm-sized marsupials with flaps on their arms similar to flying squirrels, are considered “exotic pets,” but you may not know much else about them. Last week, the MSPCA took in a ...

For the better part of the last 25 million years, a group of now-extinct marsupials roamed the wilds of what is now eastern Australia. These marsupials, called palorchestids, weighed upwards of 2,200 ...

When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six meters long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human. We have ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world: the ...

Research has revealed features of early human brain development are mimicked in the brains of marsupials. University of Queensland research has revealed features of early human brain development are ...

Modern mammals often live in groups, but most marsupials are solitary. With no fossil evidence to suggest that the animals have ever behaved otherwise, paleontologists have long assumed that ...

I think one of the coolest critters around is perhaps one of the least understood, and therefore one of the least-liked animals. To add insult to injury, some even say it’s ugly. Of course, I don’t ...

There are hundreds of species of frog in the world, each with unique and wondrous features that set it apart from others like it. Some of those frogs are, unfortunately, endangered, and it’s possible ...

William Geary is a PhD student at Deakin University, and affiliated with the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, and a member of the Ecological Society of Australia. Adrian ...

In Australia, there's a little critter known as the marsupial mole. It has lush, golden fur. It is blind. It has flipper-like front feet so it can swim through desert sands. And it is not easy to find ...