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Australia’s Only Shrew is Now officially Extinct, Killed by Non-native Species Introduced by Humans

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse ...

Study tracks how foxes 'colonised' Australia and grew to a population of 1.7 million

A nationwide program has traced how foxes spread from south-eastern Australia to as far away as the Pilbara in just 70 years, ...