Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia's most bizarre mammals. Known as "itjaritjari" to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and featuring prominently in their tales, the marsupial mole is rarely ...

The first time Suzanne MacDonald saw one was in a gutter outside a fast-food restaurant on Yonge Street. “I was like, ‘What the hell is this thing?’ And everybody’s gathered around going ...

Maddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York.

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...

Now, our team, led by Dr. Stephen Frankenberg and Professor Andrew Pask, has begun to unearth some of the marsupial mole's deepest evolutionary secrets by studying its genome for the first time. ...

Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia’s most bizarre mammals. Known as ‘itjaritjari’ to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and featuring prominently in their tales, the marsupial mole is rarely observed, ...