Are Marsupials and Mice of One Kind? If So, Did the Pouched Exist Before the Nonpouched? After the Flood Questions

We will start with this map: [link to commons.wikimedia.org (secure)]

Marsupials' habitat is not in Europe and Asia. When the Ark rested high up on Ararat in present-day Turkey and the animals were released, they had to adapt to each other. Many extinct animals/birds became extinct when man rediscovered land by boat or ship; introducing predators also. Let us back up; the earlier ships were much smaller after the flood because all of the technology has been destroyed (machining tools). So in the rediscovery of remote lands like Australia, the first visits were not extravagantly planned and mice among other small sneaking hijacking riders went with man to places where no land animals (except birds and sea life) and possibly little to no insects existed! Therefore, having the opportunity to develop different characteristics that while in the midst of it in generations would not survive predation.

Now North and South America were accessible I believe by ice from Russia to the United States as shown by a current ice map: [link to nsidc.org]
So predators eventually made it North America much sooner which could hinder the kangaroo development from mice but nevertheless it looks like marsupial development made it to a certain point with opossums.

Looking for some information on pouches, I was led to this interesting find on Wikipedia:
Mating generally happens between May and July. All males die soon after mating. Females give birth to about 6 young ones about 30 days after mating. Phascogales do not have the true pouch that is found in most other marsupials [1][2]. Instead, they form temporary folds of skin - sometimes called a "pseudo-pouch" [3] around the mammary glands during pregnancy. Young stay in this pseudo-pouch area, nursing for about 7 weeks before being moved to a nest where they stay until they are weaned at about 20 weeks of age. Females live for about 3 years, and generally produce one litter. Courtesy: [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

This is interesting, temporary pouches for the young! So Phascogale and Mice look so closely related; the link between Marsupials and mice?

So to not have pouches develop until needed an energy saving characteristic product of micro-evolution? Maybe the Marsupials first and then mice? It looks that way that it may have been Phascogales that were riding early post flood boats. Or maybe mice and marsupials are two different kinds? But because due to the Phascogales, there is a link?

To me, it is obvious that we would not have the Kangaroo today if they had not had a few hundred years if not 1000's to micro-evolutionize in peace to what they are today.

Last Edited by conservator on 03/23/2021 06:25 PM