marsupial

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Staff at Hobart Airport in Australia's Tasmania state said the disoriented marsupial was spotted among the stuffed toys on Wednesday.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

They suggest that brief, rapid bursts of hopping may have helped some giant kangaroo species avoid predators, including members of an extinct group of marsupial lions known as Thylacoleo.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

In recent years, scientists have aimed to clone the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, an extinct marsupial.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

"It may have been at least as diverse as the later Australian marsupial fauna... but I would need more evidence," Flinders University palaeontologist Rod Wells told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be home to marsupial lions, diprotodons and giant kangaroos.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari