The "holy grail" for understanding how and why koalas respond to infectious diseases has been uncovered in an Australian-led, world-first genome mapping project.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 09, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

(Phys.org) —Sex determining genes in marsupials have shed some light on how the Y chromosome, which determines the male sex in humans, will quickly degenerate and eventually disappear, according to a world-renowned evolutionary ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 03, 2013 2.8 / 5 (6) 5

Scientists have visualised the short pregnancy of a small species of the kangaroo and wallaby family of marsupials, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), for the first time by high-resolution ultrasound. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

When, how and why modern humans first stood up and walked on two legs is considered to be one of the greatest missing links in our evolutionary history. Scientists have gone to the far ends of the earth – and the wonderful ...

Biology - Other

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A ban on the international trade of the Tasmanian tiger, the buff-nosed kangaroo rat and the pig-footed bandicoot was lifted Thursday—because the species have been extinct for decades.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Australia's desert-dwelling bilby is under threat after floods destroyed a predator fence which allowed feral cats to kill 150 of the newborn marsupials, conservationists said Thursday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

Well at least this is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica), finds an article in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, and sho ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Tasmanian devils had low immune gene diversity for hundreds, and possibly thousands, of years before the emergence of Devil Facial Tumour Disease, researchers at the University of Sydney and ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 05, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers from the University of New South Wales and the University of Adelaide in studying fossils of Nimbadon lavarackorum, an extinct wombat-like marsupial, have concluded that the animal ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 28, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

Australia's native animals are being fed nauseating sausages of cane toad meat in a bid to train them against eating the foul, toxic species as it spreads into new areas, researchers said on Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

A group of Tasmanian devils will be transferred to a small Australian island to start what is hoped will be a self-sustaining population, free from the facial tumour that has devastated their species.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 14, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

Could the Tasmanian devil, a ferocious marsupial threatened by facial tumours spread by biting, be saved by a change of character? Zoologists think there's a chance.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 04, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A team of Australian and New Zealand researchers have discovered fresh evidence that could finally unravel the mystery of what killed Tasmania's giant marsupials over 40,000 years ago.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 28, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

Sheep-sized ancient relatives of modern-day wombats lived in Australia’s treetops 15 million years ago, according to new research led by Dr Karen Black from the University of New South Wales.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 03, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

The brushtail possum, a cuddly-looking marsupial protected in its native Australia, has become a reviled feral pest in New Zealand, its fur providing a lucrative sideline for hunters who supply a burgeoning ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 19, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0