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By Kristine Sabillo Researchers describe the kultarr as “Australia’s cutest mammal”: It’s eyes are quite large for its ...
A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a ...
Native to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, pygmy marmosets hold the title of the world’s smallest true monkey. They are ...
This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it's an enigmatic and tiny mammal found only in the deserts of Australia - the marsupial mole. There are two ...
Notoryctes typhlops, or southern marsupial mole, is found across the deserts of central and southern Australia. It is also also called itjaritjari by the local Indigenous Aṉangu peoples.
Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusive animals, the marsupial mole.