Marsupials
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 42 marsupial specimens. These date from 1876 to 1998.
This collection contains 23 mounted specimens, 14 skeletons, one skin and one specimen in spirit. It represents 19 marsupial species, including the well-known kangaroos, wallabies, possums and wombats, and also lesser-known marsupials like the quolls, Tasmanian devils, and the gliders or ‘flying squirrels’. The specimens in the collection come from Argentina, Trinidad, New Guinea and Australia.
About marsupials
Marsupials are a group of mammals that have a distinctive pouch (or in some species just a patch of bare skin) where females carry their young through early infancy. There are two main groups – American marsupials, found in South America, Central America and the southern USA, and Australian marsupials, found in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands. - Broader term
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