Sugar gliders, small nocturnal flying marsupials native to New Guinea and Australia, are more closely related to kangaroos than to their lookalike, distant cousins the flying squirrels. Like kangaroos ...

From a sea monster's head being on the wrong end of its body to thinking pterosaurs were flying marsupials, here are 10 creatures from the dinosaur age that looked way different than scientists ...

Sugar gliders, small palm-sized marsupials with flaps on their arms similar to flying squirrels, are considered “exotic pets,” but you may not know much else about them. Last week, the MSPCA ...

Rather, it's an enigmatic and tiny mammal found only in the deserts of Australia—the marsupial mole. There are two related ...

Bats, experts in sustained flight, come to mind. But other mammals, such as flying squirrels, colugos and three species of marsupial are skillful gliders. A team of American researchers has taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Working on marsupials continues to amaze and surprise us. They're often the odd one out, but it's this characteristic that means they reveal so much about biology in the more common mammals ...