Artwork: Diprotodon were one of a number of giant marsupials that lived in Ice Age Australia It is being likened to the great migration of wildebeest in Africa. Scientists have discovered that ...

It squats at the edge of a small gorge, surveying its next meal — the decaying body of an enormous wombat-like marsupial known ... of years to a time when giant beasts ruled the harsh Australian ...

Published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, it is the largest marsupial genome to date. Not only is it bigger than the koala genome, it's even bigger than that of humans. A genome is ...

The study also offered further clues into the appearance of the species, which was the largest apex predator marsupial to survive into the 20th Century. Tasmanian tigers had pouches like kangaroos ...

The northern marsupial mole, or kakarratul ... From bilbies with their giant heat-releasing ears to great thorny devils - which use their spikes to channel water into their mouths - many have ...