Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas....
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Marsupialization is the surgical technique of cutting a slit into an abscess or cyst and suturing the edges of the slit to form a continuous surface from...
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distinguishing feature of female marsupials, monotremes (and rarely in the males as in the yapok and the extinct thylacine); the name marsupial is derived from the...
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Marsupial moles, the Notoryctidae /noʊtəˈrɪktɪdiː/ family, are two species of highly specialized marsupial mammals that are found in the Australian interior...
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also known as marsupial shrews, are members of the order Dasyuromorphia. The two species of these dasyurids are: Red-bellied marsupial shrew, Phascolosorex...
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Thylacoleo (redirect from Marsupial lions)
carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around 40,000 years ago), often known as marsupial lions...
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Dasyuridae (redirect from Marsupial Mouse)
The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera. Many are small and mouse-like...
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Diprotodontia (redirect from Marsupial herbivore)
(/daɪˌproʊtəˈdɒntiə/, from Greek "two forward teeth") is the largest extant order of marsupials, with about 155 species, including the kangaroos, wallabies, possums,...
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Dasyuromorphia (redirect from Marsupial carnivore)
tail" in Greek) is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the...
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Thylacine (redirect from Marsupial Wolf)
known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania...
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Mole (animal) (section Marsupial moles)
referred to as moles include the African golden moles and the Australian marsupial moles, which have a similar ecology and lifestyle to true moles, but are...
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southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops), also known as the itjaritjari (pronounced [ˈɪɟɐrɪɟɐrɪ]) or itjari-itjari, is a mole-like marsupial found in...
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Platypus (redirect from Marsupial duckbill)
that placental mammals and marsupials may have diverged earlier, and a subsequent branching divided the monotremes and marsupials, but later research and...
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Opossum (category Marsupials of Central America)
are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia (/daɪˌdɛlfɪˈmɔːrfiə/) endemic to the Americas. The largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere...
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subclass is divided into two infraclasses: pouched mammals (metatherians or marsupials), and placental mammals (eutherians, for which see List of placental mammals)...
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marsupial may refer to: Gastrotheca monticola Gastrotheca longipes This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rana marsupial....
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Numbat (redirect from Marsupial anteater)
fasciatus), also known as the noombat or walpurti, is an insectivorous marsupial. It is diurnal and its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. The...
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Thylacoleonidae (redirect from Marsupial lion family)
diprotodontian marsupials from Australia, referred to as marsupial lions. The best known is Thylacoleo carnifex, also called the marsupial lion. The clade...
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Queensland tiger (redirect from Marsupial tiger)
been hypothesized to be a survivor or descendant of the large predatory marsupial Thylacoleo, officially considered to be extinct, or possibly a large feral...
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Marsupial lawns are portions of land where the soil moisture is much higher than in the vegetation surrounding it. These high moisture levels create lawns...
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Girls, Boys and Marsupials is the first album by The Wombats, released in 2006 in Japan only. Many of these songs appear on their debut album A Guide to...
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the marsupials) but excludes the egg-laying monotremes and various extinct mammals evolving prior to the common ancestor of placentals and marsupials. Therian...
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Thylacosmilus (redirect from Marsupial Sabretooth)
North American Smilodon, but a sparassodont, a group closely related to marsupials, and only superficially resembled other saber-toothed mammals due to convergent...
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Metatheria (category Prehistoric marsupials)
related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains...
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Monito del monte (category Marsupials of Argentina)
(Dromiciops gliroides), or colocolo opossum, is a diminutive species of marsupial native only to south-western South America (Argentina and Chile). It is...
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The Vombatiformes are one of the three suborders of the large marsupial order Diprotodontia. Seven of the nine known families within this suborder are...
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The Andean marsupial tree frog (Gastrotheca riobambae), also known as the Riobamba marsupial frog or Riobamba pouched frog, is a species of frog in the...
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Howling III (redirect from Howling III: The Marsupials)
Howling III (also known as Howling III: The Marsupials and The Marsupials: The Howling III) is a 1987 Australian comedy-horror film and the sequel to...
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Cloaca (section Marsupials)
reptiles, birds, and a few mammals (monotremes, tenrecs, golden moles, and marsupial moles)[clarification needed] have this orifice, from which they excrete...
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(the marsupials) and placental mammals. Australia is home to two of the five extant species of monotremes and the majority of the world's marsupials (the...
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