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
In recent years, scientists have aimed to clone the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, an extinct marsupial.
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024
Beneath the sand: Australian rangers found a northern marsupial mole, the “hardest of all the animals to find.”
From New York Times • May 1, 2024
But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be home to marsupial lions, diprotodons and giant kangaroos.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Australia and New Zealand - Introductory
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