Beyond the well-known elephants and tigers, the world teems with tiny mammals playing crucial roles. From the Etruscan shrew, ...

Beneath the deserts of Australia, a tiny and mysterious mammal glides through the sand-the marsupial mole. There are two ...

The “itjaritjari” or marsupial mole (Notoryctes) is another truly bizarre marsupial that lives out in the sandy deserts of Central Australia. While they may look like other moles, marsupial ...

Notoryctes typhlops, or southern marsupial mole, is found across the deserts of central and southern Australia. It is also also called itjaritjari by the local Indigenous Aṉangu peoples.

S.R. Frankenberg et al. Unearthing the secrets of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole. Science Advances. Vol. 11, Jan. 1, 2025, p. eado4140. doi: 10.1126/sciadv ...

In the southern desert of Australia, there lives an elusive and unique animal - the marsupial mole. It lives under the sand and is so rare that very few people have ever seen it. Scientists have ...

Genomic analysis also revealed the marsupial mole population declined sharply about 70,000 years ago – before the first humans arrived in Australia. This suggests marsupial moles were affected during ...

The ancestors of the Australian marsupial mole conquered their subterranean niche around 60 million years ago. Over time, their unused eyes, for example, became unnecessary - and were eventually ...

Using patterns of genetic diversity across the marsupial mole genome, we were able to show they have likely experienced a long-term decline in effective population size that began around 70,000 ...

Notoryctes typhlops, or southern marsupial mole, is found across the deserts of central and southern Australia. It is also also called itjaritjari by the local Indigenous Aṉangu peoples.