The primary difference is that the young are not raised in a special pouch, as in marsupials. |
It became home to a unique zoo of hoofed mammals, edentates, marsupials, and more giant flightless birds. |
To distinguish them from the marsupials and the placental mammals the monotremes are placed in their own class, the prototheria. |
Dr Evans this week issued guidelines to locals living in the bush capital on how to steer clear of an attack by the cuddly looking marsupials. |
This laconic roller of his own cigarettes was an authority on Australian marsupials, especially the kangaroos. |
They are marsupials, which just describes the fact that they carry their young in a pouch. |