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 ...

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...

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

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 ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...