A few teeth found in an outback fossil deposit have helped connect a 30-million-year blind spot in Australia's evolutionary history.

To better understand patagium evolution, the team focused on marsupials. That is because the ability to glide has developed repeatedly, using similar anatomical changes, in closely related marsupials ...

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 ...

Researchers explain the genomic and developmental basis of the patagium, the thin skin membrane that allows some mammalian species to soar through the air. People say "When pigs fly" to describe the ...

Classification, evolution and behavioural ecology of Australian marsupials / K.W.S. Ashwell -- Overview of marsupial brain organisation and evolution / K.W.S. Ashwell -- Development and sexual ...

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 ...

Marsupials represent a distinctive branch of mammalian reproduction, characterised by a brief gestation, the birth of highly altricial young and an extended lactation period during which development ...

The discovery of a new branch on the marsupial family tree suggests that the history of Australia’s unique mammals is more ...