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marsupials used to walk on all fours; some still do. but through evolution marsupials are walking on their hind legs and climbing tress to stay alive.

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this picture shoes how marsupials are when they are babies. after evolution humans can see the differences and also similarities in the marsupials.

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this picture of different animals in the marsupials represents where they come from and how close the animals are to onanother

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Marsupials used to be an isolated group
Absences of large numbers of mammals, marsupials expanded to fill the niches
Koala- does not have an external tail
evolution shows that the skeletal structure of a koala once had an external tail

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http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/tree_kangaroos/tree_kangaroos.html
https://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/physical-characteristics-koala
http://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/diprotodontia-koala-wombats-possums-wallabies-and-kangaroos

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1. Procoptodon- skull of the simosthenurus gilli
600 million years ago
2. Microbiotheria- Macropodous giganteus (Kangaroo) 4-5 million years(Pleistocene)
3. Megafauna Dipotodon Optatum; 25,000 years ago, Pleistocene
4. Palorchestes- 600 million years ago; Pleistocene
5. Sinodelphys- 125 million years so; Early Cretaceous

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Koala- pouch to raise their young, gray and white, fur protects them from high and low temperatures
Tree Kangaroo-  broad face, short snout, short round ears, medium length tail, hind legs
Bandicoot- found across Australia, size of rabbits, long thin tail, sleep all day and eat food at night to avoid predators, does not have a pouch, hind legs
3 Exemplary Organisms-  all live near or in Southern, Eastern and Southeastern Australia, nurse their young even when they are adults, fur that protects them fromweather

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Common Name- Marsupials

Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Mammalia
Order- Perametemorphia
Family-  Perametidae
Genus- Perametes
Species- 21

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Common Name- Marsupials
Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Mammalia
Order- Diprotodonta
Family- Diprotodonta
Genus- Phascolarclos Cinerus
Speices- Phascolarclos Cinerus

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Common Name- Marsupials
Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Mammalia
Order- Diprotodonta
Family- Macropodidae
Genus- Dendrolagus
Species- 12