1. Marsupials include koalas, possums and kangaroos.

2. Pouches are a peculiarity of marsupials.

3. Many archaic monkeys, marsupials, and other forms were rapidly exterminated by the invaders.

4. Those that evolved in the southern hemisphere, the marsupials, start to do this when their babies are very young indeed.

5. This ancient placental family coexisted with the marsupials from the early days of the continent's isolation.

6. Like Mrs Patrick Campbell, marsupials seem to be sinking ships, firing on their rescuers.

7. The koala is a nocturnal, tree dwelling marsupial mammal.

8. Koala is an arboreal Australian marsupial.

9. A long-tailed marsupial mouse, is found only in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

10. The Tasmanian devil, a feisty marsupial that lives only in the Australian island state of Tasmania, was deemed an endangered species this week by the state's government.

11. The numbat, a marsupial, is also likely to lose its habitat in the forests of south-western Australia.

12. A University of Muenster team drew up a marsupial family tree based on DNA.

13. The injured marsupial which underwent surgery at the Melbourne Zoo is expected to recover.

14. Wallabies are marsupial mammals like kangaroos and eat diets high in vegetation.

15. Like marsupial mammals,[Sentencedict] Hutts nurse their young Huttlets in special brood pouches.

16. The marsupial has been in decline for decades due to urban sprawl from car accidentsdog attacks.

17. Kangaroo - The name for the Australian marsupial Kangaroo came about when some of the first white settlers saw this strange animal hopping along and they asked the Aborigines what it was called.

18. The smallest marsupial in all the world is but 45mm in length. So small that when fully grown it can stand comfortable in a dessert spoon .

19. The lean period at the beginning of the dry season with few available fruit resources is tolerated as the marsupials store fat.

20. The main emphasis of Hume's book is the inter-relationships between nutrition, reproductive performance and life histories of marsupials.

21. No significant homology could be detected between the human and marsupial proteins outside this motif.

22. However(), the great strength lies in the detailed consideration of the nutrition and ecology of the marsupial herbivores.

23. The first stop is Featherdale Wildlife Park, where buses are met by a park agent holding a small marsupial.

24. It is home to an array of prehistoric treasures, including the remains of a tree-dwelling crocodile, a carnivorous rat kangaroo and a marsupial lion.

25. South America had been isolated from northern landmasses for tens of millions of years and was teeming with marsupial species, including several successful carnivorous varieties.

26. The disease is contained within Tasmanian devils, but there are researchers out there who are afraid that this might also jump into other marsupial species.

27. The devils, known for powerful jaws, fierce screeches and voracious consumption of prey, are the world's largest marsupial carnivores.

28. The Tasmanian devil lives on the island of Tasmania in Australia and is a fierce marsupial with black fur and a strong smell.

29. By doing this, it is possible to show that the tiger's closest living relative is another marsupial called a numbat .

30. The Dingiso (Dendrolagus mbaiso), as the creature is also known, is a forest-dwelling marsupial with bold coloration that spends most of its time on the ground.

31. The plant-eating marsupial would have been the size of a four-wheel drive car and weighed three tonnes, experts say.

32. Commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, the Thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times.

33. A long-tailed marsupial mouse, is found only in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This timid creature rarely ventures for from its nest.

34. An infectious facial cancer is spreading rapidly among Tasmanian devils and populations of the world's largest marsupial predator are believed to have fallen by more than 60% as a result.

35. Today, this creature is known as the kangaroo, a widespread marsupial endemic to Australia.

36. The Tasmanian Devil is a marsupial that exists only on the Australian island state of Tasmania.

37. Writing in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology journal, they suggest a single marsupial species moved from the Americas to Australia.