In a new paper, published in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers has analysed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct species to show that conservation sensitive Australasian Marsupials are much older than previously thought. The greater bilby, one of the bandicoots, is a long-term evolutionary survivor which is now threatened  by human activities [Credit: Michael Westerman, Creative Commons...

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