Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% between 1999 and 2010 A small marsupial species has been saved from near ...

Picture the Australian wilderness at dawn: the soft glow of sunlight dances across gum tree leaves, a gentle breeze stirs, ...

Malashichev and his colleagues observed four marsupial species—eastern gray kangaroos, red kangaroos, red-necked wallabies, and Goodfellow’s tree kangaroos—as they groomed and fed in the wild. On a ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...