This tiny face belongs to a baby kangaroo called a joey.

This tiny face belongs to a baby kangaroo called a joey.

A newborn joey is about the size of a jellybean—blind, hairless, and weighing less than 1 gram.

Completely on its own, it crawls through its mother's fur into her pouch, where it latches onto a teat and continues developing for months.

The pouch is more than a safe hiding place...

It's a living nursery that keeps one of nature's most vulnerable babies alive.

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