SciShow Tangents

Marsupials


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G'day, mate! This week, we’re taking a trip Down Under (and to South, Central, and North America) to meet our weird mammalian cousins with built-in cargo pockets, the marsupials! 

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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:

Antechinus mating

https://www.wired.com/story/antechinus-climate-change/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-a-little-mammal-has-so-much-sex-that-it-disintegrates

https://www.livescience.com/51083-photos-antechinus-new-species.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-17/search-for-endangered-antechinus-after-bushfires-on-gold-coast/12564958

Alaskan marsupial fossil

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoaf-ndm021819.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-night-marsupial-months-winter.html

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2018.1560369

https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app52-217.html  

https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/PublicRoom_AK_Dinosaurs-on-NorthSlope_booklet_2018.pdf

https://www.npca.org/articles/1822-the-only-marsupial-in-u-s-national-parks

[Ask the Science Couch]

Pouch cleaning 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/science/how-do-female-kangaroos-keep-their-pouches-clean.html

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/05/1168902.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339227/

[Butt One More Thing]

Opossums and smelling dead

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544902/facts-about-opossums

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/opossums-so-darn-ugly-theyre-adorable.htm


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