Main Characteristics of Marsupials

• There are about 320 species of marsupials in the world.
• Marsupials live in America and Australia.
• Marsupials include koalas and kangaroos, as well as opossums, mouse opossums, wombats, Tasmanian devils, numbats, gliders, quolls and thylacines.
• Marsupials are herbivores, omnivores or carnivores.
• The smallest newborn mammal in the world is the honey possum. It weighs 0.0001 ounces (5 mg) at birth.

Marsupial Family Tree

Species List