"Working on marsupials continues to amaze and surprise us. They're often the odd one out, but it's this characteristic that means they reveal so much about biology in the more common mammals ...

Nature is full of evolutionary selflessness. From deep-sea octopuses to certain marsupials, there are animals and insects that reproduce and then die, as their lives can be cut short because they ...

Surveying DNA methylation in opossum embryos reveals that, in marsupials, such marks are retained. The genome is patterned with various ‘epigenetic’ modifications, which are biochemical ...

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The marsupial frog, which incubates its young in a pouch on its back, was thought to be extinct in some countries By Danna Staaf The horned marsupial frog, which carries its eggs in a pouch on its ...

During a two-week stretch last in April, the von Arx Wildlife Hospital admitted 53 young Virginia Opossums and currently as of May 1 was treating 40.

Marsupials, such as kangaroos, give birth to underdeveloped offspring that in many species climb into a pouch to suckle. And monotremes, the oldest, weirdest and rarest of the mammal lineages ...

In a study published today in Nature, the team at the Crick investigated, for the first time, epigenetic changes in embryos of a marsupial, which diverged from eutherians 160 million years ago.