News articles tagged with 'marsupial'
Marsupial embryo jumps ahead in development
— 30 Nov 2010 21:45 | BiologyLong a staple of nature documentaries, the somewhat bizarre development of a grub-like pink marsupial embryo outside the mother's womb is curious in another way…
Do holes make moles?
— 3 Nov 2010 11:14 | Geology and palaeontologyThe mysterious origins of Australia's bizarre and secretive marsupial moles have been cast in a whole new and unexpected light with the first discovery in the fossil record of one of…
A hop from South America - tracking Australian marsupials
— 28 Jul 2010 10:57 | BiologyDebates have raged for decades about how to arrange the Australian and South American branches of the marsupial family tree. While marsupials like the Australian tammar wallaby and…
Remarkable fossil cave shows how ancient marsupials grew
— 16 Jul 2010 12:38 | Geology and palaeontologyThe discovery of a remarkable 15-million-year-old Australian fossil limestone cave packed with even older animal bones has revealed almost the entire life cycle of a large prehistoric…
Wallabies and bats harbour 'fossil' genes from the most deadly family of human viruses
— 3 Jul 2010 09:41 | HealthModern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbour a 'fossil' copy of a gene…
Endangered quolls taught to turn their noses up at toxic toad
— 14 Apr 2010 09:13 | EnvironmentEcologists in Australia have successfully trained a critically endangered marsupial - the northern quoll - to turn its nose up at toxic cane toads. Their results, including fascinating…
Loud and lazy but didn't chew gum: Ancient koalas
— 21 Dec 2009 08:25 | Geology and palaeontologySkull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala's 'lazy' lifestyle and ability to produce loud 'bellowing'…
UF researcher helps reveal ancient origins of modern opossum
— 16 Dec 2009 11:31 | BiologyA University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North…
Hair of Tasmanian tiger yields genes of extinct species
— 13 Jan 2009 16:12 | BiologyAll the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January…
Mass extinction of large prehistoric animals - a result of human hunting
— 12 Aug 2008 10:01 | Geology and palaeontologyResearch led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. The study, published this week…