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

I was home, sick, and I had gotten up at about 7 a.m., which is late for me. Feeling somewhat dejected, I was sitting at the ...

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

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 ...

Bettongs may be small, but these Australian natives can crush hard nuts that would snap the jaws of much larger animals.

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, ...

They were already the largest and most formidable predators to live in Australia, but an extinct giant species of marsupial lion also had a trick up its sleeve when hunting - they could climb.

The ferocious Marsupial lion ruled the plains of Australia around 45,000 years ago THE FIRST complete skeleton of the terrifying Marsupial lion reveals the huge predator was an adept hunter that got ...

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 ...