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The Tasmanian devil, Earth’s largest meat-eating marsupial, is named for the single island state it inhabits. But thousands of years ago, the species lived all over mainland Australia—including ...
Tasmanian devils are among Australia's most distinctive mammals. Stocky, powerful and famously noisy, wild populations are now restricted to Tasmania. But this was not always the case. In fact, ...
Once upon a time I was fortunate enough to see one of the most incredible animals left on earth, a wild Tasmanian devil. I was in the company of 80 wildlife biologists from mainland Australia, most of ...
For the Tasmanian devil, time is running short as the species faces shrinking genetic diversity. As the largest living carnivorous marsupial, the species has spent three decades confronting contagious ...