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Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are primarily found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of the defining features of marsupials is their unique reproductive strategy, where the young are born in a relatively undeveloped state and then nurtured within a pouch.
- Yalkaparidontia
Life reconstruction of Yalkaparidon coheni by Filipe...
- Marsupial Moles
Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae / n oʊ t ə ˈ r ɪ k t ɪ d...
- Thylacoleonidae
Thylacoleonidae is a family of extinct carnivorous...
- Yalkaparidontia
- Reproduction
- Biogeography
- Sounds
- Living Marsupials
Marsupials give birth to living young. The young are called joeys. The joeys feed on milk. They are born very small. Marsupials have a special pouch where they carry their joeys. After the birth the joey goes into its mother's pouch, where it can drink milk and is kept warm and safe. When the joeys are young they stay in the pouch all the time, but...
Marsupials evolved before the southern supercontinent Gondwana broke off from Pangaea100 million years ago. Early marsupial fossils have been found in Asia, from 125 million years ago. They were outcompeted on Laurasia by placental mammals, but the placentals did not get into the Australasian part of Gondwana before it broke away into a separate su...
Marsupials are relatively speechless. So we can place the development of mammalian speech to about 200 million years ago with the early placental mammals.
Australasia
1. Bandicoots 2. Kangaroos 3. Koalas 4. Tasmanian Devil 5. Thylacine(Tasmanian Tiger) 6. Wallabies 7. Wombats
South America
1. Opossums 2. Shrew opossums 3. Monito del Monte
No longer marsupial
The borhyaenids and the sabertooth Thylacosmilus are no longer considered to be marsupials. They are sparassodont metatherians, the sister group of the marsupials.
marsupial, Any mammal of the infraclass Marsupialia, characterized by premature birth and continued development outside the womb. The young remain attached to the mother’s teats for a period corresponding to the late stages of fetal development of a placental mammal.
Marsupials are non-placental mammals belonging to the infraclass (or order) Marsupialia. Marsupial females typically have an external pouch (called the marsupium, from which the name 'Marsupial' derives) in which the immature young are raised after birth until early infancy.
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This is a list of estimated global populations of Marsupials species. This list is not comprehensive, as not all Marsupials have had their numbers quantified. Common name. Scientific name. IUCN Red List status. Trend. Global population estimate (year) Population notes.
Common NameScientific NameIucn Red List StatusTrendVombatus ursinusLC IUCN>915,090 (2020) [1]Lasiorhinus latifronsNT IUCN1,300,000 (2016) [2] [3]Lasiorhinus krefftiiCR IUCN315 (2021) [4]Phascolarctos cinereusVU IUCN100,000–500,000 [citation needed]Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are primarily found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of the defining features of marsupials is their unique reproductive strategy, where the young are born in a relatively undeveloped state and then nurtured within a pouch.
The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like or shrew -like, giving some of them the name marsupial mice or marsupial shrews, but the group also includes the cat-sized quolls, as well as the Tasmanian devil.
