In Australia, people tend to think carnivores lead the clean-up crew after an animal dies. But brushtail possums – thought to be plant-eaters – also eat carcasses.
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The tiny, mouse-like planigales are some of the smallest marsupials around – and there are two more species of them than anybody realised.
Brain samples of a thylacine that died in 1880 in Berlin were kept safe by researchers for decades. Now, they have finally been analysed.
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Senior Lecturer- School of Biomedical Sciences and Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
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