Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in ...

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.

Like kangaroos, marsupial moles have a pouch, although it's upside down, presumably so that sand doesn't collect in the pouch as the mole swims forward through sand. Clark and some other colleagues ...

Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia's most bizarre mammals. Known as "itjaritjari" to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and featuring prominently in their tales, the marsupial mole is rarely ...

Clark and some other colleagues recently teamed up with biologists in Australia to analyze DNA from a single specimen: a female southern marsupial mole. "Marsupial mole specimens are very rare and ...

More information: Stephen R. Frankenberg et al, Unearthing the secrets of Australia's most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado4140 ...