SciShow: How Did North America End Up With a Marsupial?

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Content of the Lesson: SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how they got so far away from their Australian relatives is a bit of a mystery. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Alisa Sherbow, Silas Emrys, Chris Peters, Adam Brainard, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Melida Williams, Jeremy Mysliwiec, charles george, Tom Mosner, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Piya Shedden, GrowingViolet, Nazara, Matt Curls, Ash, Eric Jensen, Jason A Saslow, Kevin Bealer, Sam Lutfi, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Bryan Cloer, Jeffrey Mckishen ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: http://www.scishowtangents.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oldest-known-ancestor-of/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265347494_The_Opossum_Its_Amazing_Story https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215202320.htm https://www.livescience.com/64897-why-marsupials-in-australia.html https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/71489/10/ZORA_NL_71489.pdf https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/baby-opossum-pine-barrens-new-jersey-gm182874101-13820873 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamb%C3%A1_(Didelphis_marsupialis).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Didelphis_virginiana_with_young.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/panama-3d-render-topographic-map-gm909748718-250565427 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gondwana_420_Ma.png#/media/File:Gondwana_420_Ma.png https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008278 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sinodelphys_szalayi_7.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/baby-possum-gm139677758-1002646 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/joey-kangaroo-wallaby-marsupial-animal-australia-wxy90ny


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