The northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) is an adorable little nocturnal marsupial about the size of a cat. It lives in northern Australia and eats fruit, insects, lizards, small mammals and toads.

Australia is full of cute animals—wombats, bandicoots, potoroos, echidnas, wallabies, platypuses, quokkas and koalas just to name a few. Now, Chloe Hart at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ...

Bundaberg Regional Council is giving you the opportunity to name the two new spotted-tailed quolls at Alexandra Park Zoo. Health and Regulatory Services councillor Wayne Honor said the pair were ...

Seven eastern quolls have been released in western Victoria, marking a long-awaited return for the species feared lost to extinction in mainland Australia. It's hoped the newly released quolls will ...

HE MIGHT be oh so cute, and Alexandra Park Zoo's newest arrival is sure to draw a crowd, but this little bundle also has a fierce streak. The still-to-be named spotted-tail quoll's carnivorous diet ...

The Amazing Race was the nation’s most viewed entertainment show of the night, just beating the ABC’s Quoll Farm, a documentary about a family of elusive Tasmanian marsupials. According to OzTAM metro ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Bundaberg. Followed categories will be added to My News. Two spotted-tailed quolls, native to the Bundaberg region, were given a welcome fit for the queen ...

There's been a baby boom of eastern quolls at a New South Wales wildlife sanctuary, with a record number of joeys born this season. A breeding program manager says the births feel like a "modern ...

Quolls are among Australia’s most remarkable native predators. These spotted marsupials, found nowhere else on Earth, have ...

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PARIS — For male northern quolls, sex is a death sentence. The cute marsupials native to northern Australia are the world’s largest semelparous mammal, which means that the males drop dead after their ...