How Did Opossums Get to America

How Did Opossums Get To America?

The southern marsupials were left in splendid isolation in Australia and in South America, which was an island continent until about 5 million years ago. … Among the South Americans that made it up north were several groups of opossums, the ancestors of the opossums that exist in North America today.Mar 27, 2018

How did opossums come to America?

Opossum-like peradectids first appeared on the continent about 65 million years ago, at the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which killed the dinosaurs. … Marsupials migrated between North and South America until the two continents separated after the end of the Cretaceous period.

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