Marsupial Pouches are Even Cooler than We Knew!

Marsupial Pouches are Even Cooler than We Knew!

Recent findings published in the scientific journal, Current Biology, show that marsupial pouches represent a biological strategy “more evolved” than currently suggested. Marsupials are mammals who evolved to have pouches to carry their young. Scientists long believed they represented an evolutionary step between egg-laying mammals (like the platypus) and mammals who carry their infants to […]

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How kangaroos could be jeopardising conservation efforts across Australia

How kangaroos could be jeopardising conservation efforts across Australia

The experimental fencing had gone up to keep the rabbits out, but the ground inside the conservation area at Yathong in central New South Wales had still been nibbled and munched bare. “It was completely denuded,” says Prof Mike Letnic. “It was like a moonscape.” The culprit? Australia’s most ubiquitous marsupial: the kangaroo. “There’s this perception […]

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