The earliest records of mammals in Australia come from the Age of the Dinosaurs. One hundred and ten million years ago — in the early Cretaceous period — small beasts no larger than cats were ...

This creature "was thought to be extinct a couple of decades ago, so it's a really rare and threatened species," said Bush ...

Marsupial moles are small, about the length of a pencil ... they aren't lost to the sands of time like too many other Australian mammals.

Descended from more archaic relatives, the early true mammals were mainly small insect-eating creatures ... sent different landmasses moving apart. Australia and South America were isolated ...

South Australia's fourth-largest island is set to become an ark for mammal species recovery, funded by $4.8 million from ...