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Gallery: Tasmanian devils

By AG STAFF • March 13, 2014

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In the desperate race to stop a new cancer from wiping out Tasmanian devils, an expedition financed by an Australian Geographic Society fundraiser has found cause for hope on a remote, windswept coast.

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