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.

There are two related species of the marsupial mole. Notoryctes typhlops, or southern marsupial mole, is found across the deserts of central and southern Australia.

Australia’s bilbies (greater bilby shown with mouse for size) with its functional eyes and big ears doesn’t look like the marsupial mole but turns out to be one of the mole’s closer living ...

In the southern desert of Australia, there lives an elusive and unique animal - the marsupial mole. It lives under the sand and is so rare that very few people have ever seen it. Scientists have ...

In a world-first, scientists have unearthed the genetic secrets of Australia’s elusive southern marsupial mole. Native to Australia’s north-western deserts, marsupial moles are known as wonders of ...

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.

Notoryctes caurinus, or the northern marsupial mole, is found in the deserts of northwestern Australia. It is also called kakarratul by the local Indigenous Martu people.