what kind of mammals carry offspring
Examples of Marsupial Mammals. Marsupial females carry their young in a pouch. Tom Brakefield/Stockbyte/Getty Images. The most well-known defining feature of marsupial mammals are the females' pouches. They give birth to live offspring, but with significantly shorter gestation periods than placental mammals.Offspring are born as not much more than embryos.possums. Opossums are the only marsupial mammals indigenous to North America. Mothers carry their young in the pouch until they're 2 to 3 months old, then they continue carrying offspring around on their backs for about another month or two whenever they venture out of their den.