Dr Brandon Menzies

Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

The wallaby that's permanently pregnant

The swamp wallaby, an iconic Australian marsupial, has accomplished an incredible reproductive feat as the only mammal known to be pregnant and lactating throughout the female’s entire adult life

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