Why do humans grow two sets of teeth? These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution
You only get 52 teeth in your lifetime: 20 baby teeth, followed by 32 adult teeth.
You only get 52 teeth in your lifetime: 20 baby teeth, followed by 32 adult teeth.
Evolution
Sep 22, 2022
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Putting your pregnancy on pause until the time is right to give birth sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but for many mammals what's known as "embryonic diapause" is an essential part of raising their young.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2019
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Modern mothers, whether they be human or mouse, might be forgiven for envying marsupial mamas. Rather than enduring a long pregnancy and the birth of a relatively well-developed—and comparatively large—baby, kangaroos, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2017
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New research has confirmed the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) has a form of colour vision that is more similar to that of dogs rather than to other animals of similar species.
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2014
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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. The study has shed ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2013
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The Australian wallaby and platypus could turn out to be key weapons in fighting the growing health threat of multidrug-resistant bacteria, a team involving University of Sydney researchers has discovered.
Biotechnology
Sep 2, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now, it was a mystery why many marsupials have two thymuseskey organs in the immune systeminstead of the one typical of other mammals. Now postdoctoral researcher Dr. Emily Wong from the ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2011
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