Examining the evidence for rare fauna.
Dedicated to Steve Irwin
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DNA analysis supports the argument that the newly discovered Laotian Rock Rat is in fact genetically separated from all other rodents by 44 million years, making it a survivor from the age of dinosaurs. Illustration.
Using an animal that died in 1980, scientists have successfully produced two clone babies of a banteng. The success was in part due to the similarity with domestic cattle; cloning the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) may be more difficult.
Hendrikus van Leeuwen, whilst employed as a pest controller, then caster and moulder, stole over 2000 museum artefacts including skins, skeletons, whole animals and a thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) skull.
A dingo rushes at a four year old girl playing on the beach with her family and attacks. Photo.
Down from 26,000 in the 1970s to just 7,000 today, New Zealand's "kiwis of the sea" or Hector's dolphins are in serious danger of extinction. One subspecies has only 110 individuals left. Photos.
Any way you look at it, an average median temperature increase of 2 degrees celsius in the rainforests of Puerto Rico over the past 30 years, combined with a new fungus species - it looks grim for the Coquis. Three of 16 species believed extinct already. Two more very close to. Photos.
"Deborah Tabart, CEO of the Australia Koala Foundation, believes the animal's plight is as bad as she has seen it in her 20 years as a koala advocate." ... "I just see environmental vandalism and destruction everywhere I go". Photo.
And it's not the Easter bunny. Known from only 15 specimens (all prior to 1929), two photos and the last sighting in 1972, researchers have captured the Sumatran striped rabbit using a remote triggered camera. Photo.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland, Australia has confirmed that a female devil - part of the DFTD insurance population - is carrying up to four baby devils.