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Although phylogenetic trees often point to a single early group that later gave rise to modern Australian marsupials, the fossil evidence appears less tidy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
The analysis showed that these three species lived alongside several other marsupials that scientists had already studied.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Scientists may never be able to fully reconstruct the routes that early marsupials took as they spread and evolved.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
"Whatever these things were, they seemed to be primitive compared to other marsupials at the time, and they seem to have been doing their own thing and surviving well enough alongside them," says Dr. Churchill.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
How, he wondered, did marsupials travel from South America to Australia?
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
