1·He came across the jawbone of a 4.5 million-year-old marsupial.
他偶然发现了一个450万年前的有袋动物的颌骨。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Paleontologist Peter Murray has studied a rock painting in far northern Australia that shows what looks very much like a megafauna marsupial known as Palorchestes.
古生物学家彼得·默里在澳大利亚北部研究过一幅岩画，画中显示的非常像是一种被叫做袋貘的巨型有袋动物。
3·The marsupial has been in decline for decades due to urban sprawl and from car accidents and dog attacks.
这种有袋动物其数量在过去几十年间逐渐减少，主要原因是城市的扩张、车祸和狗的袭击。
4·"We found the most gigantic marsupial ever known," he told the BBC.
“我们发现了迄今所知最巨大的有袋动物，”他告诉英国广播公司。
5·Koala is an arboreal Australian marsupial.
考拉是一种澳大利亚树栖有袋动物。
1·A University of Muenster team drew up a marsupial family tree based on DNA.
明斯特大学的一个研究小组根据 DNA 绘制了一个有袋动物的族谱。
2·Today, this creature is known as the kangaroo, a widespread marsupial endemic to Australia.
今天，这种生物被称为袋鼠，是澳大利亚特有的有袋动物。
3·Another famous boneyard in the same region is a place called Wellington Caves, where Diprotodon, the largest known marsupial, was first discovered.
同一地区另一个著名的坟场是个叫做惠灵顿洞穴的地方，人们在那里第一次发现了双门齿兽——目前已知的最大的有袋类动物。
4·An infectious facial cancer is spreading rapidly among Tasmanian devils and populations of the world's largest marsupial predator are believed to have fallen by more than 60% as a result.
传染性面部肿瘤在袋獾中迅速蔓延，人们相信，其结果是导致这种世界上最大的袋类食肉动物的数量降低了60%以上。
5·The zoo believes the marsupial's eye problem may be to do with her diet before she was abandoned, or because she is overweight, leading to fat deposits behind her eyes.
动物园相信这个袋类动物眼睛斜视可能与它被遗弃前的饮食有关，或者是因为它体重超标，导致眼睛后面脂肪堆积。