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| x Evolution of mammals |
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The evolution of mammals within the synapsid lineage (mammal-like "reptiles") was a gradual process that took approximately 70 million years, beginning in the mid-Permian. By the mid-Triassic, there were many species that looked like mammals, and...
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| x Marsupial |
Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive pouch (called the marsupium), in which females carry their young through early infancy.
It was once commonly believed that marsupials were a primitive forerunner of modern...
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| x Marsupial shrew |
The two species in the genus Phascolosorex, also known as marsupial shrews, are members of the Dasyuromorphia order.
There are two species of these dasyurids:
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| x Marsupial Lion |
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The Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex, the "murderous (or 'meat-cutting') marsupial lion" from thylakos - pouch, leo - lion, carnifex - murderer, tormentor, 'butcher') is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial mammal that lived in Australia...
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| x Thylacoleonidae |
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Thylacoleonidae is a family of extinct meat-eating marsupials from Australia, referred to as marsupial lions. The best known is Thylacoleo carnifex, also called the Marsupial Lion. The clade ranged from the Late Oligocene to the Pleistocene, with...
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| x Wakaleo |
Wakaleo (indigenous Australian waka, "little", "small", and Latin leo, "lion"), was a genus of medium-sized thylacoleonids that lived in Australia in the early to late Miocene. It was approximately 2.5 ft (80 cm) long, or the size of a dog. Although...
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| x Wakaleo oldfieldi |
Wakaleo oldfieldi is an extinct species of marsupial lion found in the tertiary deposits of South Australia. There are three unfused molar teeth instead of two fused molars as is the case with the Pleistocene Thylacoleo carnifex.
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| x Mammal classification |
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Mammalia is a class of animal within the Phylum Chordata. Mammal classification has been through several iterations since Carolus Linnaeus initially defined the class. Many earlier ideas have been completely abandoned by modern taxonomists, among...
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| x Propalaeotherium |
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Propalaeotherium was an early genus of perissodactyl ancestral to the horse. Its name means "before Palaeotherium", as it is the ancestor of Palaeotherium, another relative of early horses. Although they were descended from the earliest ancestral...
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| x Limnic eruption |
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A limnic eruption, also referred to as a lake overturn, is a rare type of natural disaster in which carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake water, suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans. Such an eruption may also cause tsunamis in...
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| x Limnology |
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Limnology (pronounced /lɪmˈnɒlədʒi/, lim-NOL-uh-jee; from Greek: Λίμνη limne, "lake"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is often regarded as a division of ecology or environmental science. It is, however, defined as "the study of inland waters". This...
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| x Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research |
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The Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER) fosters research collaborations between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Great Lakes Environmental...
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| x Thylacine |
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The Thylacine (pronounced /ˈθaɪləsaɪn/, or in Australia /ˈθaɪləsiːn/, also /ˈθaɪləsɨn/) (binomial name: Thylacinus cynocephalus; Greek for "dog-headed pouched one") was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as...
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| x International Thylacine Specimen Database |
The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) was completed in April 2005. It is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the Thylacine (Thylacinus...
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| x Australian megafauna |
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Australian megafauna are a number of large animal species in Australia, often defined as species with body mass estimates of greater than 30 kilograms, or equal to or greater than 30% greater body mass than their closest living relatives. Many of...
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| x Yurlunggur |
Yurlunggur is a genus of fossil snake in the extinct family Madtsoiidae. This genus was a part of the extinct megafauna of Australia, and contains the species Yurlunggur camfieldensis.
A large apex predator that seems to have been extant in the...
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| x Julunggul |
In the Australian Aboriginal mythology of Arnhem Land, Julunggul is a rainbow snake goddess, who oversaw the maturing and initiation of boys into manhood. She was a fertility goddess, associated with rebirth and the weather.
She is also known as...
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| x Into the Labyrinth |
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Into the Labyrinth (1993) is the sixth album recorded by the Dead Can Dance duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. It marked a strong shift from the previous albums, putting ethnic music influences at the forefront as would be the case in the later...
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| x Riversleigh |
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Riversleigh, in North West Queensland, is Australia's most famous fossil site. The 100 km² area has fossil remains of ancient mammals, birds and reptiles of Oligocene and Miocene age. The site was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1994 and is an...
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| x Riversleigh Platypus |
The Riversleigh Platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni) is an ancient, semi-aquatic Monotreme from Australia during the lower and middle Miocene. Native to Queensland, the Riversleigh Platypus was discovered by Michael Archer, F. A. Jenkins, S. J....
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| x Monotreme |
Monotremes (from the Greek Word, monos 'single' + trema 'hole', referring to the cloaca) are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria).
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Platypoda is a suborder of the monotremes; it includes three families and a single living species, the Platypus.
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| x Ornithorhynchidae |
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Ornithorhynchidae is one of the two extant families in the order Monotremata, and contains the Platypus and its extinct relatives. The other family is the Tachyglossidae, or echidnas. Within Ornithorhynchidae are two genera, Obdurodon and...
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| x Australosphenida |
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The Australosphenida are a clade of mammals. Today, living specimens exist only in Australia and New Guinea with only five surviving species, but fossils have been found in Madagascar and Argentina. The surviving species consist of the platypus and...
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| x Prototheria |
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Prototheria (pronounced /ˌproʊtɵˈθɪərɪə/, from Greek prōtos, first, + thēr, wild animal) is a taxonomic group, or taxon, to which the order Monotremata belongs. It is conventionally ranked as a subclass within the mammals.
Most of the animals in...
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| x Ornithorhynchus maximus |
Ornithorhynchus maximus was a platypus from the Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene. Some scientists believe it is an aquatic version of an echidna whereas others still believe that it is a platypus.
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| x Extinct animals of Australia |
Following is a complete list of Australian animal extinctions from 1788 to the present. There are 23 birds, 4 frogs, and 27 mammal species known to have become extinct since European settlement of Australia. It is worth making special mention of the...
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| x Fauna of Australia |
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The fauna of Australia consists of a huge variety of unique animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia. This high level of endemism can be...
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| x Geography of Australia |
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The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent but the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated along the eastern and southeastern coasts....
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| x Geography of Indonesia |
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Indonesia is an archipelagic island country in Southeast Asia, lying between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is in a strategic location astride or along major sea lanes from Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean. The country's variations in...
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| x Flora of Indonesia |
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The flora of Indonesia consists of many unique varieties of tropical plants. Blessed with a tropical climate and around 18,000 islands, Indonesia is a nation with the second largest biodiversity in the world. The flora of Indonesia reflects an...
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| x Fauna of Indonesia |
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The Fauna of Indonesia consists of a high level of biodiversity due to its vast-size and tropical archipelago make-up. Indonesia divides into two ecological regions; western Indonesia is more influenced by Asian fauna, and the east is more...
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| x Fauna of Asia |
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Fauna of Asia is all the animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands. Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the west between Europe and Asia, the term "fauna of Asia" is somewhat elusive. Asia is the eastern part of the...
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| x Fauna and flora of India |
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India has some of the world's most biodiverse regions. The political boundaries of India encompass a wide range of ecozones—desert, high mountains, highlands, tropical and temperate forests, swamplands, plains, grasslands, riverine areas as well as...
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| x Flora and fauna of Goa |
Forest Cover in Goa is diverse. Goa is India's smallest state terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population. Goa is located on the west coast of India in the region known as the Konkan
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| x Madagascar |
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Madagascar is a 2005 computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks Animation, and released in movie theaters on May 27, 2005. The film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are...
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| x Districts of Madagascar |
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Districts are third-level administrative divisions of Madagascar below the autonomous provinces (which are to be dissolved in 2009), and regions. Districts are in their turn divided into communes; while some of the districts on urban areas such as...
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| x Geography of India |
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The geography of India describes the physical features of India, a country in South Asia that lies entirely on the Indian Plate in the northern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate. The country lies to the north of the equator between 8°4' and 37°6'...
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| x Geography of China |
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The geography of China stretches some 5,026 kilometres (3,123 mi) across the East Asian landmass bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam in a changing configuration of broad plains,...
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| x Kangaroo |
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A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning 'large foot'). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo,...
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| x Kangaroo |
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Kangaroo is a meat from any of the species of kangaroo. It is produced in Australia from wild animals and as of 2007 is exported to over 55 countries worldwide.
Kangaroo is produced only from free ranging wild animals living on land owned by people...
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| x Wallaby |
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A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod (Family Macropodidae). It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name.
Very small forest-dwelling...
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| x Tammar Wallaby |
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The Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii), also known as the Dama Wallaby or Darma Wallaby, is a small member of the kangaroo family and is the type species for research on kangaroos and marsupials.
It is found on offshore islands on the South...
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| x Parma Wallaby |
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The Parma Wallaby (Macropus parma) was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy, cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of southern New South Wales, it was never common and, even before the end of the 19th...
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| x Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby |
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The Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby or Small-eared Rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale. It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km...
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| x Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby |
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The Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) is a member of the macropod family (the marsupial family that includes the kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, and others).
The Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby is grey-brown with a yellow...
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| x Rock-wallaby |
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The rock-wallabies are the wallabies of the genus Petrogale.
The medium-sized, often colourful and extremely agile rock-wallabies live where rocky, rugged and steep terrain can provide daytime refuge. Males are slightly larger than females with a...
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| x Rothschild's Rock-wallaby |
Rothschild's Rock-wallaby (Petrogale rothschildi), sometimes known as the Roebourne Rock-wallaby, is a species of macropod found in Western Australia, in the Pilbara district and the Dampier Archipelago. It is not currently considered to be...
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| x Macropod hybrids |
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Macropod hybrids are hybrids of animals within the family Macropodidae. Several macropod hybrids have been experimentally bred, including:
All of the above hybrids showed a mix of traits from both parents and all were found to be sterile (the female...
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| x Nambaroo |
Nambaroo gillespieae is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene some 25 million years ago of Australia.
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| x Sthenurinae |
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The Sthenurinae is a sub-family within the marsupial family Macropodidae, meaning 'short faced kangaroos'. Only a single species occurs today, with all the other known genera existing in the Pleistocene, these included some of the largest fossil...
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Procoptodon was a genus of giant short-faced kangaroo living in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. P. goliah, the largest kangaroo that ever existed, stood approximately 3 metres (10 feet) tall and weighed about 230 kilograms (510 lb).
The...
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| x Giant Koala |
The Giant Koala (Phascolarctos stirtoni) was an arboreal marsupial which existed in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. Phascolarctos stirtoni was about one third larger than the contemporary Koala, and has had an estimated weight of 29 lbs or...
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| x Phascolarctos |
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The genus Phascolarctos consists of 3 species, of which only one (P. cinereus, the Koala) is alive today. The largest species was P. stirtoni (or Giant Koala) that lived in the Pleistocene epoch. Giant Koala species are known only from fossils found...
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| x Vombatiformes |
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Vombatiformes is one of the three suborders of the large marsupial order Diprotodontia. Five of the seven known families within this suborder are extinct; only the families Phascolarctidae, with the Koala, and Vombatidae, with three extant species...
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| x Lasiorhinus |
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Lasiorhinus is the genus containing the two hairy-nosed wombats, which are found with in Australia. The species are:
The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is found in some of the semi-arid to arid regions belt from New South Wales southwest to the South...
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| x Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat |
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The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) is one of three species of wombats. It is found in scattered areas of semi-arid scrub and mallee from the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area. It is the smallest wombat...
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| x Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat |
The 'Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat' ('Lasiorhinus krefftii'), also known as the 'Yaminon', is one of three species of [wombat]s. It was found across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland as recently as 100 years ago, but is now restricted to a 3...
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| x Endangered Australian fauna |
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Threatened fauna of Australia are those species and subspecies of birds, fish, frogs, insects, mammals, molluscs, crustaceans and reptiles to be found in Australia that are in danger of becoming extinct. This list is the list proclaimed under the...
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