Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

Beneath the deserts of Australia, a tiny and mysterious mammal glides through the sand-the marsupial mole. There are two ...

The “itjaritjari” or marsupial mole (Notoryctes) is another truly bizarre marsupial that lives out in the sandy deserts of Central Australia.

Tracing the mole’s evolutionary heritage For years the marsupial mole’s strange, specialised traits have frustrated attempts to determine precisely who its closest relatives actually are.

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.

On this week's episode: ancient human ancestors didn't eat meat, carbon caught in a cosmic conveyer belt, robotic bees pollinating crops, and the incredibly rare marsupial mole gets a checkup.

The male marsupial mole’s testes are located inside its body, making it the only Australian marsupial without a scrotum. The study revealed that a key gene for testicular descent – RXFP2 – isn’t ...

This adaptation of the marsupial mole is one of the findings of an international research team that has deciphered the complete genome of this rare desert creature for the first time.

Notoryctes typhlops, or southern marsupial mole, is found across the deserts of central and southern Australia. It is also also called itjaritjari by the local Indigenous Aṉangu peoples.

Using patterns of genetic diversity across the marsupial mole genome, we were able to show they have likely experienced a long-term decline in effective population size that began around 70,000 ...