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The 48 pages that link to Marsupial, each with the reason it gives.

• MammalCompared with: Marsupial development contrasts with the prolonged uterine development typical of placental mammals.

• MammaliaBroader topic: Marsupial development contrasts with the longer pregnancies typical of placental mammals.

• ViviparityBroader topic: Their short gestation and prolonged postnatal development offer a distinct mammalian pattern of live birth.

• Mammary glandCompared with: Marsupial mammary glands adapt milk production to prolonged postnatal development.

• Wallace LineRelated: Marsupials are characteristic of Australasian regions east of the line, though not exclusive to them.

• Evolution of mammalsBroader topic: Marsupials represent a major living branch with a distinctive reproductive pattern.

• MacropodidaeNarrower topic: Macropods belong to this mammal group, whose reproductive pattern includes development in a pouch.

• Marsupial pouchNarrower topic: Pouches occur in many, but not all, members of this mammalian group.

• AltricialityRelated: Marsupial development places much of early growth after birth.

• KangarooNarrower topic: Kangaroos are marsupials, with brief gestation followed by prolonged pouch development.

• ThylacineNarrower topic: The thylacine’s reproductive biology placed it among Australia’s marsupial mammals.

• DiprotodonNarrower topic: Diprotodon shared the defining reproductive biology of living marsupials.

• DiprotodontiaNarrower topic: Diprotodontians belong to this mammal group, though some have reduced or absent pouches.

• KoalaNarrower topic: Koalas belong to this mammal group and raise their young in a pouch.

• Marsupial reproductionNarrower topic: Marsupial reproduction is the characteristic reproductive pattern of this mammal group.

• EutheriaCompared with: Marsupials are Eutheria’s living sister group, not members of the clade.

• Red kangarooNarrower topic: Red kangaroos give birth to highly undeveloped young that develop in the female’s pouch.

• MetatheriaBroader topic: Living marsupials are the best-known surviving members of Metatheria.

• RodentiaCompared with: Marsupials provide a contrasting mammalian reproductive pattern to the placental rodents.

• WallabyNarrower topic: Wallabies share the reproductive pattern that defines marsupials.

• Cloaca (anatomy)Compared with: Marsupials generally have separate urinary and reproductive passages despite a shared external opening region.

• NumbatNarrower topic: The numbat belongs to this mammal group, despite lacking a pouch.

• Sugar gliderNarrower topic: Sugar gliders raise their underdeveloped young in a pouch, the defining marsupial pattern.

• Tree-kangarooNarrower topic: Tree-kangaroos share the reproductive pattern characteristic of marsupials.

• Eastern grey kangarooNarrower topic: Its joeys complete much of their early development in a pouch.

• WombatNarrower topic: Wombats belong to this mammal group and raise their young in backward-facing pouches.

• DasyuromorphiaNarrower topic: Dasyuromorphs belong to this mammalian lineage, although their pouch development varies.

• MammalogyBroader topic: Their life histories offer a major comparison with placental mammals.

• QuokkaNarrower topic: Like other macropods, quokkas raise their young in a pouch.

• QuollNarrower topic: Quolls share the marsupial pattern of early birth and pouch development.

• ThylacoleoNarrower topic: Thylacoleo belonged to this distinctive mammalian reproductive lineage.

• Virginia opossumNarrower topic: The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial native to North America north of Mexico.

• Common brushtail possumNarrower topic: Brushtail possums belong to this mammal group and rear their young in a pouch.

• MacropodiformesNarrower topic: Macropodiformes belongs to this mammalian group, though its members vary in pouch development.

• PademelonNarrower topic: Pademelons share the reproductive pattern characteristic of marsupials.

• PeramelemorphiaNarrower topic: Peramelemorphia belongs to this broader mammalian lineage.

• SparassodontaRelated: Living marsupials are the closest familiar comparison for sparassodont relationships.

• Western grey kangarooNarrower topic: Its young complete much of their early development in the mother's pouch.

• Common ringtail possumNarrower topic: Its reproduction and early development follow the marsupial pattern.

• Honey possumNarrower topic: The honey possum belongs to the diverse mammal group known as marsupials.

• Marsupial moleNarrower topic: Marsupial moles belong to this mammal group despite their highly unusual anatomy.

• PhalangeriformesNarrower topic: Phalangeriformes belongs to this major mammal group.

• Rock-wallabyNarrower topic: Rock-wallabies belong to this distinctive mammalian group.

• VombatiformesNarrower topic: Vombatiformes belongs to this mammalian lineage, with its characteristic reproductive biology.

• DidelphodonCompared with: Living marsupials clarify the lineage, but Didelphodon was not necessarily a member of the crown group.

• DunnartNarrower topic: Dunnarts are marsupials, with brief pregnancies and tiny newborn young.

• MacrotisNarrower topic: Macrotis shares the defining reproductive pattern of marsupials.

• PotorooNarrower topic: Potoroos share the defining reproductive pattern of marsupials.