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How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of EvolutionThe stalactites of Cathedral Cave draw they eye, but there is more scientific interest in fossils found in the cave floor below.

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How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of EvolutionThe stalactites of Cathedral Cave draw they eye, but there is more scientific interest in fossils found in the cave floor below.
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How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution

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Rare Blonde Echidnas And Tiny Marsupials Steal The Show In First-Ever Camera Survey Of Remote Tasmanian IslandA blonde echidna climbs over a tree branch on the ground, captured by a camera trap.

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Rare Blonde Echidnas And Tiny Marsupials Steal The Show In First-Ever Camera Survey Of Remote Tasmanian IslandA blonde echidna climbs over a tree branch on the ground, captured by a camera trap.
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Rare Blonde Echidnas And Tiny Marsupials Steal The Show In First-Ever Camera Survey Of Remote Tasmanian Island

clock-iconMarch 17, 2026

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Two Tiny Marsupials Thought Extinct For 6,000 Years Discovered Alive And Well In New GuineaThe pygmy long-fingered possum (left) and the ring-tailed glider (right).

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Two Tiny Marsupials Thought Extinct For 6,000 Years Discovered Alive And Well In New GuineaThe pygmy long-fingered possum (left) and the ring-tailed glider (right).
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Two Tiny Marsupials Thought Extinct For 6,000 Years Discovered Alive And Well In New Guinea

clock-iconMarch 6, 2026
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Endangered "Northern Native Cat" Captured On Camera For The First Time In 80 Years At Australian SanctuaryA northern quoll captured using a camera trap.

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Endangered "Northern Native Cat" Captured On Camera For The First Time In 80 Years At Australian SanctuaryA northern quoll captured using a camera trap.
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Endangered "Northern Native Cat" Captured On Camera For The First Time In 80 Years At Australian Sanctuary

clock-iconJanuary 7, 2026
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Officially Gone: Slender-Billed Curlew, Once-Widespread Migratory Bird, Declared Extinct By IUCNslender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) taxidermty..

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Officially Gone: Slender-Billed Curlew, Once-Widespread Migratory Bird, Declared Extinct By IUCNslender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) taxidermty..
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Officially Gone: Slender-Billed Curlew, Once-Widespread Migratory Bird, Declared Extinct By IUCN

clock-iconOctober 13, 2025
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Woylies Boing Back Into Western Australia Thanks To Groundbreaking Wildlife ProjectJoshua Hungerford, Field Ecologist, and one of the Woylies released outside the feral-free fenced area at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region in July 2025.

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Woylies Boing Back Into Western Australia Thanks To Groundbreaking Wildlife ProjectJoshua Hungerford, Field Ecologist, and one of the Woylies released outside the feral-free fenced area at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region in July 2025.
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Woylies Boing Back Into Western Australia Thanks To Groundbreaking Wildlife Project

clock-iconJuly 7, 2025
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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil RecordSkeletal mount of Zygomaturus trilobus at the Melbourne Museum

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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil RecordSkeletal mount of Zygomaturus trilobus at the Melbourne Museum
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50,000-Year-Old Collagen Could Lead Us To Hippo-Sized Wombats In The Fossil Record

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Bite Mechanics Could Help Reveal If Rumors Of Rat-Kangaroo’s Death Are ExaggeratedIf the desert rat-kangaroo survived beyond the 1930s, analysis of its bite force could help us save it.

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Bite Mechanics Could Help Reveal If Rumors Of Rat-Kangaroo’s Death Are ExaggeratedIf the desert rat-kangaroo survived beyond the 1930s, analysis of its bite force could help us save it.
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Bite Mechanics Could Help Reveal If Rumors Of Rat-Kangaroo’s Death Are Exaggerated

clock-iconMarch 11, 2025
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Thylacine De-Extinction Achieves Mid-Gestation Marsupial Embryo Development In Artificial Uterusblack and white photograph of two living thylacine

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Thylacine De-Extinction Achieves Mid-Gestation Marsupial Embryo Development In Artificial Uterusblack and white photograph of two living thylacine
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Thylacine De-Extinction Achieves Mid-Gestation Marsupial Embryo Development In Artificial Uterus

clock-iconJanuary 15, 2025
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DNA Reveals Australian Marsupial Mole Is Even Weirder Than It LooksTaxidermied southern marsupial mole or itjaritjari (Notoryctes typhlops) at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, England.

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DNA Reveals Australian Marsupial Mole Is Even Weirder Than It LooksTaxidermied southern marsupial mole or itjaritjari (Notoryctes typhlops) at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, England.
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DNA Reveals Australian Marsupial Mole Is Even Weirder Than It Looks

clock-iconJanuary 3, 2025
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People May Have Exported Marsupials From Australia 42,000 Years Agokangaroo photographed in an area with lots of green grass and trees in the background; she is facing the camera, as is her joey whose head is visible sticking out of her pouch

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People May Have Exported Marsupials From Australia 42,000 Years Agokangaroo photographed in an area with lots of green grass and trees in the background; she is facing the camera, as is her joey whose head is visible sticking out of her pouch
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People May Have Exported Marsupials From Australia 42,000 Years Ago

clock-iconJuly 19, 2024
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Marsupial That Has Sex Until It Dies Cannibalizes Fallen Suitorsantechinus eating its own kind

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Marsupial That Has Sex Until It Dies Cannibalizes Fallen Suitorsantechinus eating its own kind
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Marsupial That Has Sex Until It Dies Cannibalizes Fallen Suitors

clock-iconJanuary 18, 2024
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Ancient Marsupial Sabertooth Had Teeth So Big Its Eyes Were Sticking Out Of Its HeadIllustration of what Thylacosmilus atrox may have looked like. Large teeth and eyes on the side of it's head. On a green background.

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Ancient Marsupial Sabertooth Had Teeth So Big Its Eyes Were Sticking Out Of Its HeadIllustration of what Thylacosmilus atrox may have looked like. Large teeth and eyes on the side of it's head. On a green background.
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Ancient Marsupial Sabertooth Had Teeth So Big Its Eyes Were Sticking Out Of Its Head

clock-iconMarch 22, 2023
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The Link Between Wombat Poo And Lava Revealedarticle image

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The Link Between Wombat Poo And Lava Revealedarticle image
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The Link Between Wombat Poo And Lava Revealed

clock-iconFebruary 22, 2023
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Adorable Endangered Marsupials Equipped With Poison Pellets To Halt Feline SlaughterBilby

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Adorable Endangered Marsupials Equipped With Poison Pellets To Halt Feline SlaughterBilby
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Adorable Endangered Marsupials Equipped With Poison Pellets To Halt Feline Slaughter

clock-iconAugust 24, 2022
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