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"A culmination of years of dedicated work." Experts thrilled as species long considered extinct makes remarkable comeback: 'It's incredibly rewarding to see' first appeared on The Cool Down.
Scientists may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger. Colossal Biosciences, ...
University of Kansas paleontologists discover giant hedgehog-sized marsupial relative from Paleocene Texas fossil collections ...
For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to ...
This Australian marsupial predator went extinct less than a century ago. “We’ve been working on [thylacine de-extinction] for about 10 years in my lab, but by partnering with Colossal, ...
They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...
The continent was teeming with enormous kangaroos, wombats, and tapir-like marsupials only 50,000 years ago. ... Australia’s giant extinct marsupials may be ID’d using tiny bone bits.
The scientists discovered a new species of ancient near-marsupials, or Swaindelphys, while analyzing fossils from Texas’ Big ...
Using mass spectrometry, the research team analyzed collagen peptides (short chains of amino acids) from Zygomaturus trilobus (wombat), Palorchestes azael (marsupial), and Protemnodon mamkurra ...
This unique behaviour had never been observed before, it’s also some of the first evidence for paternal care in the species.” ...