Life is short and sex-centered for the genus Antechinus. Six months after they’re born, the small, carnivorous marsupials reach adulthood. For five more months, they gain weight that they’ll ...

And this meant we could show that marsupial moles' closest relatives turn out to be Australia's bandicoots and bilbies, followed by the carnivorous marsupials like Tassie devils. As part of the ...

The crest-tailed Mulgara is a pint-sized, rat-like carnivorous marsupial that makes its home in the desert. It’s an unassuming creature which was thought to have been pushed out of its habitat ...

Two transmissible cancers affect the endangered carnivorous marsupial found in the wild only in Tasmania. Tumours usually spread when the animals bite each others' faces during fights. However ...

"We can now connect rapid molecular evolution of coat color genes with the role of these carnivorous marsupials as predators needing to avoid detection from prey," he says. Coat color variation is ...