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10 Most Animals that are no longer Alive after Climate Change
The Bramble Cay melomys, an unassuming rodent that once inhabited a coral island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, holds the tragic title of the first mammal declared extinct due to human ...
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What we lose when animals go extinct
Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas Island pipistrelle and a rat, the Bramble Cay melomys. One of the United States’ smallest native ...
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Climate change claims its first casualty in world's largest coral reef system
The Australian government officially moved the rodent-like Bramble Cay melomys to the ‘extinct’ species list. The species’ only known home was the world’s largest coral reef system ...