Tag: marsupials
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Marsupials might be the more evolved mammals
Phys.org has an interesting article about mammal evolution. A new paper in the journal Current Biology claims that marsupial mammals are more evolutionarily derived than placental mammals. This discovery is very surprising as marsupial mammals have long been thought to be an intermediate state between egg laying and placental birth. The study, published in Current Biology,…
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PBS Eons: Thylacoleo Is The Missing Australian Apex Predator
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about Thylacoleo, the so called marsupial lion, which was an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the late Pleistocene. In Australia, evolution built a family of deadly predators by taking a group of cute, harmless herbivores and turning…
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PBS Eons: How South America Made the Marsupials
PBS Eons has a new video. This one is about the marsupials of South America. Throughout the Cenozoic Era — the era we’re in now — marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents.
