Wildlife
The Aussie animals that mate themselves to death
These small marsupials keep turning up in people’s backyards, and the reason why is not what you’d expect.
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Wildlife
Why is Australia so hopping mad?
Hopping is a particularly popular mode of transport among Aussie mammals, and with good reason.
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The original Antipodean lion
With each passing year we learn more and more about Australia’s most formidable marsupial predator.
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Tiny marsupial lion named after Sir David Attenborough
Researchers have uncovered fossil remains of an extinct flesh-eating marsupial lion that weighed about 600g and lived in the tree-tops.
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Remains of bizarre snail-eating marsupial found
The fossil remains of a previously unknown family of marsupials with a taste for snails have been found in Queensland.
Wildlife
The numbats’ last stand
A group of numbat lovers has come to the rare marsupial’s rescue in a pocket of south-western WA.
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Fires send Gilbert’s potoroo back to the brink
Recent bushfires in WA have threatened the survival prospects of the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo.
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Yellow-bellied glider joey debuts at Taronga
Banjo, the yellow-bellied glider possum at Taronga Zoo
Wildlife
Eastern quolls given a second chance
Eastern quolls may be extinct from the mainland, but at Secret Creek, one conservationist is trying to change that