Marsupial
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| Marsupials Fossil range: Middle Cretaceous - Recent |
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 Female Eastern Grey Kangaroo with a joey in her pouch
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Marsupials are a type of mammals. This group is also called Marsupialia or Metatheria.
They give birth to living babies and they feed their babies milk. But their babies are born very young and very small. Marsupials have a special pouch where they carry their babies. After the birth the baby goes into its mother's pouch, where it can drink milk and is kept warm and safe. When the babies are very young they stay in the pouch all the time, but when they are older they can leave it for short times. When they are old enough and too big for the pouch they do not go into their mother's pouch anymore.
[change] List of Marsupials
- Bandicoots
- Didelphimorphia (Opossums)
- Kangaroos
- Koalas
- Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus laniarius)
- Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)
- Virginia Opossum
- Wallabies
- Wombats
[change] Other websites
Look up Marsupialia in Wikispecies, a directory of species
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