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There is no creature called a "marsupial dragon". Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is "having a go" at you (an Australian colloquialism for teasing).
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∙ 6y agoMarsupials are mammals and, like all mammals, they are warmblooded vertebrates, which breathe using lungs (rather than gills), and are covered with skin, fur or hair. Mammals, including marsupials, suckle their young on mothers' milk.
Marsupials are mammals with pouches in which they rear their young. Marsupial young are characterised by being extremely small and undeveloped at birth. At birth, they take a long, arduous journey from the birth canal, driven purely by instinct, grabbing hold of the mother marsupial's fur which she has cleaned and made easier to traverse with saliva, to reach the pouch. Upon reaching the pouch, they latch onto a teat which swells in their mouth to prevent them from being accidentally dislodged during the mother's movements. There they stay for months, to complete their development.
Not all marsupials have pouches, e.g. the numbat has a mere flap of skin, but in animals where the pouch is absent, the young are still born undeveloped, and they cling by instinct to the underside of their mother's belly, still firmly attached to teats which swell in their mouths.
Female marsupials have two vaginas, or what are called paired lateral vaginae. These are for the purpose of transporting the sperm to the womb, but there is a midline pseudovaginal canal for actually giving birth. As well as two vaginas and two uteruses, female marsupials have two fallopian tubes and two cervixes. Most male marsupials, with the exception of the largest species, the Red Kangaroo, Eastern Grey and Western Grey Kangaroos, have a "bifurcated" or two-pronged penis to accommodate the females' two vaginas.
Members of the marsupial family include (among others):
- kangaroo
- wallaroo
- wallaby
- numbat
- Tasmanian devil
- koala
- possum and glider
- opossum
- pademelon
- wombat
- cuscus
- quokka
- quoll
- bettong
- tuan / phascogale
- antechinus
- planigale
- bandicoot
- bilby
- dunnart
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What is different of a mega marsupial and a marsupials?
mega marsupials are dead and marsupials arent
Is a beaver a marsupials?
No. Beavers are placental mammals, not marsupials. Marsupials are pouched mammals.
What is the problem with marsupials?
There is no problem with marsupials.
Do marsupials have hair?
Marsupials have fur.
IS A RABBIT A MARSUPIALS?
No. Rabbits are not marsupials.
Are quolls marsupials?
Yes: quolls are marsupials. They are dasyurids, or carnivorous marsupials, feeding on birds and smaller mammals.
Are bunnies and bilbies marsupials?
Bilbies are marsupials. Rabbits are not.
Are marsupials hairy?
All marsupials have fur or hair.
Are Degus marsupials?
No. Degus are rodents, and rodent are not marsupials.
Are raccoons marsupials?
no they are not marsupials, and they are not related to pandas which are bears
What is a pouched mammal that bears immature offspring?
marsupials.
Are all marsupials furry?
Yes. All marsupials have fur.
