While reintroducing a rare marsupial to its original ecosystem is a worthwhile objective, one scientists argues that a better understanding of these rare marsupials biology and diets should come first.
Naracoorte Caves are known as one of the world’s best fossil sites.
The bilby is becoming Australia’s Easter icon and a symbol of hope for our native wildlife.
We now have ample evidence of these cute marsupials’ taste for flesh – and they could be endangering some of our most threatened birds.
Researchers have found a second population of one of Australia’s rarest marsupials in far-north Queensland.
These small marsupials keep turning up in people’s backyards, and the reason why is not what you’d expect.
Hopping is a particularly popular mode of transport among Aussie mammals, and with good reason.
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
Researchers have uncovered fossil remains of an extinct flesh-eating marsupial lion that weighed about 600g and lived in the tree-tops.
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.