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Australian wildlife: Reintroductions help threatened mammals recover

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Conservationists are reintroducing threatened mammals to their former ranges with fences to keep out cats and foxes Environment 29 December 2021 By Alice Klein A greater bilby scavenging at night cbstockfoto / Alamy Stock Photo Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world, having lost 34 mammal species in the past 200 years. … Read more

Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?

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The mystery of how some species colonised new continents is as old as the theory of evolution itself. Now, with fresh clues surfacing, the rafting hypothesis might finally sink or swim Life 15 December 2021 By Graham Lawton Brett Ryder IN DECEMBER 2016, Uwe Fritz at the Museum of Zoology in Dresden, Germany, was doing … Read more