"With its complicated reproductive set-up, a female kangaroo can be perpetually pregnant. While one joey is developing inside the pouch, another embryo is held in reserve in a uterus, waiting for its sibling to grow up and leave."—This blog post with annotated image on the inner workings of kangaroo ladyparts is one of many reasons we love science blogger Ed Yong.

  • John Lukondi

    MARSUPIAL VAGINAS. HOW DO THEY WORK?

    Someone had to say it.

  • mat catastrophe

    Headline assumes I ever wanted to know *anything* about kangaroo vaginas.

    Vagina.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.maki Michael Maki

    This entry tells me more about kangaroo vaginas than I really wanted to know.

  • Guest

    It’s a (re)production line.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    Kangaroo feminine hygiene products come with a 50 page user’s manual with a EULA.

  • robotnik

    I live in San Diego, so naturally I’m more curious about a whale’s vagina.

    • oasisob1

      Naturally.

  • RJ

    With its complicated reproductive set-up, a female kangaroo can be perpetually pregnant.

    They’re all on welfare, too.

  • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

    Many Australian organisms are opportunistic in ways similar to this. For example some plants only bloom during rare floods. Some trees react to occasional bush fires. Its because our climate is so variable on long time scales.