Australia’s only shrew has quietly gone extinct—and the koalas are next
She lived alone in a terrarium for eight months, the last female of her kind anyone would ever see. Biologist Hugh Yorkston caught grasshoppers to feed her, watching as she scurried through the fallen birds’ nest fern he’d provided for shelter. Three weeks earlier, a male shrew had been found—extraordinarily, miraculously—giving her species one final […]
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