Bettongs may be small, but these Australian natives can crush hard nuts that would snap the jaws of much larger animals.

Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% between 1999 and 2010 Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Australia has plenty of cute animals that get attention. Koalas, kangaroos and quokkas are talked about all the time, but there's a new creature that deserves the limelight. That would be the ...

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Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong ...

A new species of a native bushland marsupial—closely related to the kangaroo—has been discovered but is already likely extinct, new research shows. Analyzing fossils collected from caves of the ...

Canberra's Mulligans Flat Sanctuary is quickly establishing itself as a surprise tourist attraction thanks to its cute and endangered marsupial residents — the eastern bettongs. Today, to mark ...

Conservation groups, university researchers and government departments are banding together to save one of Australia's smallest endangered marsupials in the northern part of the Great Dividing Range.

Australian scientists studying the reliability of species distribution models for revealing the response of animals to climate change have focused their research on the endangered marsupial, the ...

Australia’s tiny jumpers, known as bettongs, are in trouble; once exterminated as agricultural pests they are threatened by habitat loss and introduced predators such as foxes and cats. Scientists ...