An International team, including scientists from Carnegie Museum of Natural History, have discovered the most primitive and oldest know relative of all marsupial mammals. Pittsburgh -- An ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic elements that drive the rapid development of marsupials' facial features. Subscribe to our ...

It’s a small, weathered tooth—nothing flashy at first glance. But the scientists who found it buried in Brazil’s Tremembé ...

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 ...

The May 9, 2018 photo taken at the zoo in Wroclaw, Poland, shows a tiny bear cuscus with its mother, very rare marsupial mammals that live on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The zoo authorities say ...

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...

The distinctive colored fur of two of Australia's rarest marsupials could be caused by "broken" pigment genes, new research ...

Kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials are even weirder than we give them credit for. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mammals ...

The fossil of a tiny creature found in northeast China is helping scientists determine when mammals split into different groups: those with babies that develop inside their mothers and those that ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 68, No. 7 (July 2014), pp. 1085-1096 (12 pages) Offspring sex ratios in mammals vary in potentially adaptive yet unpredictable ways. An integrative approach ...

An ancient mammal the size of a badger may have used its bone-crushing canines and powerful bite to take down little dinosaurs, researchers have found. In fact, the little guy could chomp down with ...