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marsupial

[mahr-soo-pee-uhl] / mɑrˈsu pi əl /


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Costing A$136,000, the artwork represents a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture's designers inspired by an ancient marsupial ant-eater found in local caves that was "massive, lumbering and fascinating".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Staff at Hobart Airport in Australia's Tasmania state said the disoriented marsupial was spotted among the stuffed toys on Wednesday.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

In recent years, scientists have aimed to clone the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, an extinct marsupial.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

Beneath the sand: Australian rangers found a northern marsupial mole, the “hardest of all the animals to find.”

From New York Times • May 1, 2024

As they pushed on, they encountered a strange universe of unknown creatures that included a 450-pound, six-foot kangaroo, and a marsupial lion, as massive as a modern tiger, that was the continent’s largest predator.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari



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