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The Antechinus, aka broad-footed marsupial mouse, pouched mouse, or Antechinus shrew looks like a mouse but with the bristly fur and long face of a shrew. These small marsupials hail from Australia. They face the threat of climate change that causes warming temperatures which forces high-altitude antechinuses into shrinking mountaintop […]

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The mountain pygmy possum, aka burramys, is the only extant species in the genus Burramys. They hail from southern Australia. These diminutive critters face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the skiing industry, and fires. Habitat division due to roads and railroads, as well as […]

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The brush-tailed mulgara is a carnivorous Australian marsupial found in the north-western, central, and south-western areas of the arid zone of Australia. While these marsupials face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of grazing camels, cattle, and rabbits, as well as fires and mismanaged fire management […]

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The feathertail glider, aka pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying mouse, or flying phalanger, is the world’s smallest gliding mammal and subsequently the smallest gliding marsupial. They hail from eastern Australia. These diminutive marsupials face the threat of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the logging […]

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The squirrel glider is but 1 of the wrist-winged gliders from the genus Petaurus. They hail from eastern Australia. These critters bear a striking resemblance, albeit larger, to sugar gliders. Squirrel gliders face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, farming, ranching, […]

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The fat-tailed dunnart is yet another mouse-like marsupial that is in the same family (Dasyuridae) as the quoll, Tasmanian devil, and little red kaluta. These, like so many other marsupials, dwell throughout much of Australia. With no major threats facing these little critters, the fat-tailed dunnarts are listed as Least […]

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The dibbler is a species of carnivorous marsupial from southwestern Australia, as well as some offshore islands. In the early 19th century, dibblers were extensively distributed across Western Australia. By 1884, they were declared extinct, but in 1967 some were rediscovered at Cheyne Beach on the southern coast of Western […]

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