New research could lead to a pregnancy test for endangered marsupials
- Written by Oliver Griffith, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne
Knew you were coming: a koala cub on the back of the mother.Shutterstock/PARFENOV
Many women realise they are pregnant before they’ve even done the test – perhaps feeling a touch of nausea, or tender, larger-than-usual breasts.
For a long time, biologists had thought most marsupials lacked a way to recognise a pregnancy.
But new...
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