Wildlife
This glider has a yellow belly and a shriek that can be heard from 500m away
They may be well-loved for their distinctive calls and adorable fluffiness, but the rare yellow-bellied gliders future is precarious.
Tag: marsupial
News
Should we be reintroducing rare marsupials to the wild?
While reintroducing a rare marsupial to its original ecosystem is a worthwhile objective, one scientists argues that a better understanding of these rare marsupials biology and diets should come first.
Science & Environment
Marsupial lions, enormous kangaroos and giant monitor lizards: treasures of the Naracoorte Caves
Naracoorte Caves are known as one of the world’s best fossil sites.
Wildlife
Possums aren’t the gentle vegetarians you thought they were
We now have ample evidence of these cute marsupials’ taste for flesh – and they could be endangering some of our most threatened birds.
News
Northern bettongs rediscovered in ‘eureka’ moment
Researchers have found a second population of one of Australia’s rarest marsupials in far-north Queensland.
Wildlife
The Aussie animals that mate themselves to death
These small marsupials keep turning up in people’s backyards, and the reason why is not what you’d expect.
Wildlife
Why is Australia so hopping mad?
Hopping is a particularly popular mode of transport among Aussie mammals, and with good reason.
AustroPalaeo
The original Antipodean lion
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
News
Tiny marsupial lion named after Sir David Attenborough
Researchers have uncovered fossil remains of an extinct flesh-eating marsupial lion that weighed about 600g and lived in the tree-tops.
News
Remains of bizarre snail-eating marsupial found
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.