Meet the parma wallaby: for decades it was presumed extinct, until it turned up in New Zealand. Today, its failure to charm Australians may have doomed it – for good.
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A new documentary makes some controversial claims about the health of kangaroo populations. But the real threat is not to Australia’s iconic kangaroos – it’s to dozens of other, obscure species.
Parents’ DNA try to manipulate one another in a bid to shape junior in their mould.
An innovative breeding technique could help bring Australia’s endangered kangaroos and wallabies back from the brink of extinction…
New research has found that breeding programs for endangered animals could send disease out into the wild. Brush-tail rock…
The private lives of marsupials are difficult to study. Many of them are nocturnal, very rare or overly sensitive to being put under intensive surveillance in captivity. Until now we’ve had to be satisfied…
Some marsupials have two immune system organs to boost immune defences while they are growing in the pouch, research from…
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