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 ...

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 ...

These evolutionary experiments happened in animals scattered all across the mammalian family tree – including flying squirrels, marsupial possums and the colugo (cousin of the primates).

such as bats or flying marsupials. The fossil was discovered in the Inner Mongolian region of China. The rock beds it was found in date to at least 125 million years ago to the Mesozoic Era, a time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...