When orphaned baby animals arrive at a rescue, the race is on to try to recreate the comfort they should have been receiving from their animal mother. Sometimes that is making a baby formula specially ...

Mammals with pouches, like kangaroos and koalas, have a radical evolutionary history that suggests they are "more evolved" than previously thought, a new study finds. Marsupials used to be considered ...

A rare tree kangaroo born in The Bronx at the end of December has finally come out of the marsupial pouch. The tiny Matschie’s tree kangaroo, considered endangered by International Union for ...

Marsupials are fascinating creatures with their own built-in pouches. These are animals like kangaroos, possums, and koalas. Although they are mammals, their pregnancies are super short, lasting only ...

As Australia continues to deal with a series of wildfires that have devastated the nation, a suburban woman and a few of her friends are looking to give kangaroos impacted by the fires a small bit of ...

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be updating the animal fact sheets that the Zoo Ambassadors and I use when studying the animals here at the zoo. I thought you might like to learn along with us.

To do so, they used one of the most unique characteristics of marsupials —their pouch. "Marsupial joeys are born at a much earlier stage in development than typical mammals," said co-first author Dr.

For the first time, scientists have been able to produce kangaroo embryos through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an important milestone in being able to replicate this across hundreds of species of ...

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

Australia has a rich diversity of kangaroo species, each uniquely adapted to specific environments, spanning from the dry Outback to coastal regions. Some notable types include the red kangaroo, ...

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 ...