Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography.

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In a world-first, scientists have unearthed the genetic secrets of Australia’s elusive southern marsupial mole. Native to Australia’s north-western deserts, marsupial moles are known as wonders of ...

Rather, it's an enigmatic and tiny mammal found only in the deserts of Australia—the marsupial mole. There are two related species of the marsupial mole. Notoryctes typhlops, or southern ...

Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia's most bizarre mammals. Known as "itjaritjari" to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and featuring prominently in their tales, the marsupial mole is rarely ...

The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain ...

In the vast deserts of Australia, beneath the shifting sands, lies the enigmatic marsupial mole, a tiny subterranean mammal now revealing its secrets to scientists. Using modern DNA technologies, ...