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The only male marsupial with a pouch uses it to "tuck his junk"

The only male marsupial with a pouch uses it to "tuck his junk"

Jennifer Sandlin
Jun 27, 2025
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By Enrique González - Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Uruguay, CC BY 4.0, Link

I found an adorable new creature to obsess over! Meet the yapok, also known as a "water opossum" — the only marsupial adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. They are cousins to the more familiar Virginia opossum and resemble it, but have short, grayish-white and brown water-re…

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