What Are Marsupials?

Marsupials are a category of mammals that birth their young and then carry them in a pocket for a period  of time until they are able to be weaned. Kangaroos are marsupials and so are armadillos. Please click on a star next to the words
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Marsupials are a group of animal species found on the continent of Australia. Like the monotremes, mammal-like animals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young, the marsupials evolved over thousands of years isolated from other continents of the world.

The marsupial has many of the characteristics of a standard mammal; they have body hair, they are warm blooded and they produce milk from mammary glands to feed their young. They also give birth to live young, but this is where the difference between marsupials and mammals lies.

Instead of gestating for a long period of time to ensure the body and brain of the embryo has developed well before the baby is born, marsupials give birth to live but very underdeveloped young. The baby kangaroo is nothing more than an early stage embryo and it pulls itself into its mother's pouch. It remains there for months as it completes its gestation.

Anmials that caryy thier young in a pouch