The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be ...

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert ...

Ecologists say regular culls are necessary to protect vegetation and other native animals, as well as the animal welfare of ...

While the eastern grey kangaroos used in this trial are not endangered, many of Australia’s marsupial species are, including koalas and Tasmanian devils. Scientists at the University of ...

With continued work in the future, the team hopes to promote live births of endangered marsupial species, including Tasmanian devils, koalas and northern hairy-nosed wombats ...

Kangaroos are the largest marsupials alive today. The largest species of kangaroo (by weight) is the red kangaroo, which can stand more than five feet tall-not including a three-foot-long tail-and ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to produce kangaroo embryos through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an important milestone in being able to replicate this across hundreds of species of ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have discovered new details ...

The species was previously thought to be long extinct, until mammal researcher Hedley Herbert Finlayson led the rediscovery ...

Speaking to Yahoo News Australia, Dr Rex Mitchell said the species was "probably always rare and elusive", and the Sturt ...