EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of marsupials include but are not limited to kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, the koala, the Tasmanian devil, and opossums.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Marsupials. are a group of mammals that are known for carrying their young in a pouch. Kangaroos, koalas, and opossums are well-known marsupials. Marsupials live in forests, lakes and streams, grasslands, and even underground. More than 170 species, or kinds, live in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands.

Detailed explanation-4: -mar·su·pi·al mär-ˈsü-pē-əl. : any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young.