Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of ...

However, the pivotal UCP1 protein evolved its ability to produce heat only after the split from marsupials," explains Martin Jastroch. Why is it important to study the mammalian family tree to ...

Kangaroos, closely related wallabies are the only large animals to hop upright on two legs A small musky rat-kangaroo, a bush-dwelling marsupial ... of the "macropodoid" family that did not ...