Mammal long thought extinct in Australia resurfaces
December 15, 2017
The crest-tailed mulgara was once widely distributed across sandy deserts in inland Australia. Credit: Reece Pedler
A crest-tailed mulgara, a small carnivorous marsupial known only from fossilised bone fragments and presumed extinct in NSW for more than century, has been discovered in Sturt National Park north-west of Tibooburra.
A team from the UNSW Sydney's Wild Deserts project made the unexpected discovery during recent scientific monitoring.
https://phys.org/news/2017-12-mammal-thought-extinct-australia-resurfaces.html
