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Marsupials reached Australia via Antarctica about 50 mya, shortly after Australia had split off.
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Marsupials appear to have traveled ( via Gondwanan land connections ) from South America through Antarctica to Australia in the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary.
Marsupials and about
Marsupials have an extremely short gestation period ( about 4 – 5 weeks ), and the joey is ' born ' essentially in a fetal state.
Marsupials give birth at a very early stage of development ( about 4 – 5 weeks ); after birth, newborn marsupials crawl up the bodies of their mothers and attach themselves to a nipple, which is located on the underside of the mother either inside a pouch called the marsupium or open to the environment.
Marsupials and mya
Marsupials spread westward into modern North America ( still attached to Eurasia ) and then to South America, which was connected to North America until around 65 mya.
Marsupials and had
Marsupials have and non-placental eutherians had a narrower opening that allows only small, immature offspring to pass through.
Marsupials and split
Marsupials and .
Marsupials have two nether orifices: one for excreting both solids and liquids ; the other for reproduction, which appears as a vagina in females and a penis in males.
Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in the Southern Hemisphere ; a distinctive characteristic, common to most species, is that the young are carried in a pouch.
Marsupials must develop a grasping forepaw during their early youth, making the transition from this limb into a hoof, wing, or flipper, as some groups of placental mammals have done, far more difficult.
Marsupials ( and also monotremes ) also lack a gross communication ( corpus callosum ) between the right and left brain hemisphere.
Marsupials have two uteri, each of which connect to a lateral vagina and which both use a third, middle " vagina " which functions as the birth canal.
Marsupials and eutherian mammals typically have an even number of nipples arranged bilaterally, from as few as two to as many as 19.
The presence of mystacial ( where a moustache would be ) vibrissae in distinct lineages ( Rodentia, Afrotheria, Marsupials ) with remarkable conservation of operation suggests that they may be an old feature present in a common ancestor of all therian mammals.
* Yvonne Rousseau's Minmers Marooned and Planet of the Marsupials: The Science-Fiction Novels of Cherry Wilder ( 1997 ) is the third in Nimrod's Babel Handbook series.
The claustrum has a phylogenetic background appearing predominantly in insectivores, Prosimians, and Marsupials.
Both Euarchontoglires and Diprotodont Marsupials are documented to possess a vermiform appendix, although this evolved as a result of convergence.
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