The ampurta, a blond or brown guinea pig-sized marsupial, is distinctive for its short, fat tail that becomes a black mohawk ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

A small golden animal with shovel-like claws swims through the red sand of Australia's central desert in pursuit of its supper. Over millions of years, it's lost its eyes, but it is still a fierce ...

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct. Scientists, including those from the Curtin University, found the new ...

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In Australia, there's a little critter known as the marsupial mole. It has lush, golden fur. It is blind. It has flipper-like front feet so it can swim through desert sands. And it is not easy to find ...

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole. DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole The marsupial mole, an elusive creature ...