Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in ...

Clark and some other colleagues recently teamed up with biologists in Australia to analyze DNA from a single specimen: a female southern marsupial mole. "Marsupial mole specimens are very rare and no ...

Genetic analyses have solved the riddle of where a marsupial mole fits on the tree of life: It’s a cousin to bilbies, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.

Maddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York.

Because of its strange traits and the lack of robust DNA evidence, the marsupial mole's relationships with other marsupials have been extremely difficult to figure out. Our colleagues at the ...

Clark and some other colleagues recently teamed up with biologists in Australia to analyze DNA from a single specimen: a female southern marsupial mole. "Marsupial mole specimens are very rare and ...