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New fossil koala (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from the Pleistocene of Western Australia [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceKoalas are regionally extinct in Western Australia (WA), but their fossils have been known since 1910. Bones were previously reported from several cave deposits in the south-west of WA, Koala Cave in Yanchep and from Madura Cave on the Roe Plain.
Kenny Travouillon +3 more
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On the Inflection of the Angle of the Jaw in the Marsupialia [PDF]
Science, 1900 n ...
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The last land. A history of mammalogy in New Guinea
Records of the Australian Museum[Excerpt] After Greenland, New Guinea is the second largest island on Earth. It is a region of exceptional biodiversity, as its eastern part alone—the independent nation of Papua New Guinea, ranks twelfth among nations for biodiversity (Williams, 2001 ...
Tim F. Flannery
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Borrelia sp. in naturally infected Didelphis aurita (Wied, 1826) (marsupialia: didelphidae)
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2000 Fifty-six opossums (Didelphis aurita) were captured on the campus of Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica county, Rio de Janeiro state, in order to investigate the occurrence of Borrelia sp among them in relation with the study of ...
Isis dos Santos Abel +4 more
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, 2022 Published as part of Beck, Robin M. D., Voss, Robert S. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2022, Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials, pp. 1-353 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (457) on pages 197-198, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Beck, Robin M. D. +2 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 199-220, April 2026.ABSTRACT The archaeological site Graman B4 provided one of the first records of substantial dietary change in ancient Australian Aboriginal society. Initial examination of the faunal remains from this site suggested that Late Holocene hunters reduced their focus on high‐ranked kangaroos to increasingly rely on arboreal possums; and that these ...
Loukas George Koungoulos +2 more
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Records of the Australian MuseumThe Pygmy Long-fingered Possum, Dactylonax kambuayai, is the smallest of the striped possums (the petaurid subfamily Dactylopsilinae). It is a ‘Lazarus species’, found living when previously known only from fossils.
Tim F. Flannery +4 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1984 Two samples of Sparganum, the larval form of Lueheella Baer, 1924 (= Spirometra Mueller, 1937) were recovered from Philander opossum (L. 1758) captured in Salobra, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, by Dr. Lauro Travassos in may, 1942.
Delir Corrêa Gomes
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Body size is of paramount importance to the survival of all organisms because of the intimate associations between size, physiological processes and ecology. Sexual size dimorphism (SSD: differences in size between the sexes) is a direct consequence of these ecomorphological relationships, arising due to sex‐based differences in selection ...
Joel H. Gayford +4 more
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Adaptive evolution of the venom-targeted vWF protein in opossums that eat pitvipers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The rapid evolution of venom toxin genes is often explained as the result of a biochemical arms race between venomous animals and their prey. However, it is not clear that an arms race analogy is appropriate in this context because there is no published ...
Sharon A Jansa, Robert S Voss
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