marsupial
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Staff at Hobart Airport in Australia's Tasmania state said the disoriented marsupial was spotted among the stuffed toys on Wednesday.
From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026
The first rediscovered species was the pygmy long-fingered possum, a striped marsupial weighing about 200g, which is understood to have vanished from Australia during the Ice Age.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
They suggest that brief, rapid bursts of hopping may have helped some giant kangaroo species avoid predators, including members of an extinct group of marsupial lions known as Thylacoleo.
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026
In recent years, scientists have aimed to clone the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, an extinct marsupial.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024
As they pushed on, they encountered a strange universe of unknown creatures that included a 450-pound, six-foot kangaroo, and a marsupial lion, as massive as a modern tiger, that was the continent’s largest predator.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Australia and New Zealand - Introductory
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