EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -What animals are marsupials? There are more than 250 species of marsupials. Examples of marsupials include but are not limited to kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, the koala, the Tasmanian devil, and opossums.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Australia, though, marsupials continue to be very diverse, and are the dominant native mammals. They include kangaroos, koalas (above left), tasmanian devils, wombats (above right), and other typical Australian mammals. Until recently, they also included the marsupial wolf, Thylacinus (below).

Detailed explanation-3: -Kangaroos and opossums are members of the same animal family. They are alike in many ways, but they are also very different. Both animals are marsupials, so they have pouches. Marsupial mothers carry their babies in these pouches.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kangaroos and wallabies are marsupials that belong to a small group of animals called macropods.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dasyurids-these are the meat-eating marsupials: quolls, the tamanian devil, tasmanian tiger, numbats, dunnarts, antechinus. Peramelemorphs-these are the omnivorous marsupials: bilbies and bandicoots. Diprotodonts-these are the largely herbivorous marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koalas, wombats.