Five Australian marsupials have been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...
You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their small endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a ...
Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...
The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 (Image: James D. Morgan) A once-extinct marsupial has been released in Australia after being bred for survival. The eastern barred ...
Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia's Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species—Menura tyawanoides—is an ancient ancestor of Australia's ...
In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...
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The fossil was discovered in Boodjamulla National Park, officials said. Brian McMahon`via Unsplash Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla ...
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