A combination of habitat loss and an abundance of predators like foxes and cats led to the marsupials’ near extinction.

Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons.

Life is short and sex-centered for the genus Antechinus. Six months after they’re born, the small, carnivorous marsupials reach adulthood. For five more months, they gain weight that they’ll ...

Tasmanian devils are carnivorous marsupials that have declined drastically due to a rare contagious cancer called devil facial tumor disease. gomagoti via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Still ...

Tasmanian devils are the world’s largest carnivorous marsupials, native to only Tasmania, an island off the coast of southeast Australia. For more than 30 years, these marsupials have been battling ...

The quoll, a carnivorous marsupial, faces habitat loss, poisoning by invasive cane toads, and predation by feral cats, dogs, and foxes. Interested in how northern quolls might escape predators, a team ...

The tiger was a member of the Thylacine family of carnivorous marsupials. It was recognizable by its yellow-brown fur and a pallet of black stripes across the lower back and tail (hence the tiger ...