Marsupial and placental mammals diverged from a common ancestor more than 100 million years ago, and have evolved independently ever since. The two groups have different modes of reproduction, yet ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed insight into why embryos erase a key epigenetic mark during early ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including ...

Their stories are stitched together by evolution, mystery, and a resilience that defies the odds. How did these iconic marsupials become so distinct, and what invisible threads tie them together?

Placental and marsupial mammals appeared during the Jurassic, sometime between 200 million and 160 million years ago. To succeed, as far as evolution is concerned, is to produce a lot of offspring ...

Study reveals how plant evolution shaped mammals’ shift to ... with the bone articular fragments of therian mammals, such as marsupials and placentals. The fossils were examined for hints ...

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 ...

UNSW scientists have discovered new species of bizarre, extinct 'hammer-toothed' carnivorous marsupials that likely crunched snails in Australia's ...

The extinct Malleodectidae family of carnivorous marsupials has become a little bit bigger with the addition of a newly described species.