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	Thylacine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It singled out a target animal and doggedly pursued the target until it was exhausted, these animals included kangaroos, wallabies, and various small animals and birds.
		The goal was to use genetic material from specimens taken and preserved in the early 20th century to clone new individuals and restore the species from extinction.
		In May 2005, Professor Michael Archer, the University of New South Wales Dean of Science, former director of the Australian Museum and evolutionary biologist, announced that the project was being restarted by a group of interested universities and a research institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thylacine (1384 words)

	Extinct Australian animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following is an incomplete list of Australian vertebrate extinctions from 1788 to the present, in the format:
		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 three great human-introduced killer species: the European rabbit, the European Red Fox, and the domestic cat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extinct_Australian_animals (614 words)

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		Most Australian plant species are evergreen and many are adapted to fire and drought, including the eucalypts and acacias.
		Well-known Australian fauna include monotremes (the platypus and echidna), and a host of marsupials, including the koala, kangaroo, wombat, and birds such as the emu, cockatoo, and kookaburra.
		Extinct: the last remaining member of the species had died, or is presumed to have died beyond reasonable doubt.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Thylacine.htm (895 words)

	Lesson Plans for Australian Animals - Grades 4-12
		Surrounded by seas and oceans, the animals on this continent are isolated.
		In other cases, humans are having to live with animals that are coming into their neighborhoods from the forests that are being depleted.
		Animals living in the Australian biomes are adapted to live successfully in their environment.
	www.musc.edu /cando/ausdwnun/ausecoa1.html (797 words)

	Lesser Bilby
		Australian Native Wildlife Gallery: Lesser Bilby: The Lesser Bilby was very similar to the body shape of the Bilby but only much smaller, and about one third its weight and size.
		Extinct Australian Species - by Craig Cormick: Lesser Bilby A carnivore member of the bandicoot family that lived in the driest deserts, the lesser bilby, although quite small, was also quite fierce.
		Australian Animals - Greater Bilby: The Greater Bilby is related to the Bandicoot.
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/L/Lesser_Bilby.shtml (1924 words)

	'Extinct' Wallabies Arrive Home From New Zealand Media Release 13 September 2003
		In a project jointly funded by the Australian Government and the South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage, the repatriation and re-establishment of the 'knee-high' wallaby to Australia is underway.
		The South Australian mainland sub-species of the Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii eugenii) is listed under the Australian Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) as 'extinct', unlike its close relative on Kangaroo Island which is not threatened.
		DNA analysis conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Conservation and Management of Marsupials, at Macquarie University, found that the Tammar Wallabies on Kawau Island, New Zealand, are descendents of the extinct Australian sub-species.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/2003/mr13sep03.html (641 words)

	Australian fauna - Gurupedia
		animal population evolved largely out of contact with the other continents.
		A very high percentage of Australian animals are endemic (found nowhere else) including about 70% of its birds and 95% of its
		The only placental mammals naturally found on the Australian mainland are bats; a large number of rodents which arrived only about 5 million years ago, and the
	www.gurupedia.com /a/au/australian_fauna.htm (146 words)

	Endangered Australian Animals
		Other introduced animals such as cattle, rabbits and deer eat the food needed by native animals and this has also reduced the numbers.
		Hoofed grazing animals such as cattle and sheep often crush the burrows of small native animals.
		These animals were hunted and killed by people who thought the thylacine would kill their chickens and sheep.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/Austendangered.htm (428 words)

	Australian Cave Yields Giant Animal Fossils
		Also among the caves' bounty are skeletons of up to 10 different species of extinct kangaroos; about 75 percent of the skeletons are complete, including three from giant kangaroos that were as tall as three meters (10 feet).
		Although many of the plants and animals that thrived during the Pleistocene are similar to their modern descendents, the period is known for its abundance of giant creatures: woolly mammoth, mastodon, saber-toothed cat, longhorned bison, wooly rhino, and giant ground sloth.
		If the animals had died on impact, all the bones would have been found in a heap directly below the hole in the ceiling.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/07/0731_020731T_Vmegafauna.html (1277 words)

	A list of Australian mammals
		The arrival of Dingos is considered to have contributed to the extinction of Thylacines from mainland Australia.
		A strikingly marked animal characterised by a body pattern of dramatically contrasting areas of intense fl and white.
		Thylacine (Historical: Extinct) - Thylacinus cynocephalus: - a species of carnivorous marsupial related to the Tasmania Devil and the Eastern Quoll; Thylacines are also known as Tasmanian Tigers.
	www.beluba.com.au /ww3/animals_list.htm (1670 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| Animals \| Koala
		Koalas are marsupials — pouched animals — 23-33 inches in length, and weighing between 8 and 19 pounds.
		After nearly becoming extinct earlier in this century, koalas are now fully protected by the Australian government.
		The future management of these populations is complicated by the shortage of forest areas where surplus animals can be released.
	www.sfzoo.org /cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=66 (624 words)

	Australian fauna: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Australian Pelican (Australian Pelican: the australian pelican or goolayyalibee (pelecanus conspicillatus) is an unmistakable...
		Extinct (Extinct: in biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or...
		Australian megafauna (Australian megafauna: most of the australian megafauna became extinct during the pleistocene (20,000-50,000...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/australian_fauna (1546 words)

	Discovery Channel :: Dead as a Dodo? Not Necessarily
		While the idea that an animal is not necessarily extinct just because it hasn't been seen for a while may seem obvious, extinction dates have traditionally been set as the date of last sighting.
		Their maths related the probability of an animal still existing at particular times after it was last seen.
		Australian biologist Professor Des Cooper of Macquarie University in Sydney said it would be interesting to test the technique on a number of Australian animals.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/afp/20031117/dodo.html (466 words)

	BioEd Online: Fire-starters blamed for Australian extinctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Australia's earliest settlers drove many animals to extinction through their use of fire, say palaeontologists who have studied the changing dietary habits of long-dead creatures.
		Many large Australian animals are known to have died off after man first arrived on the continent around 50,000 years ago.
		Miller and his colleagues say they have found evidence that many animals changed their eating habits soon after humanity's arrival, and that those that were unable to adapt to new foods died out.
	www.bioedonline.org /news/news-print.cfm?art=1875 (533 words)

	Homepage on Australian Animals
		At the same time that dinosaurs roamed the land, warm-blooded animals, including marsupials from which the present-day kangaroos are descended, were also on the land.
		The main threat to Australian plants and animals was the drying climate.
		The different species or types of kangaroos, with the possibly extinct ones omitted, are the kangaroos (3 types), wallaroo (3 types), tree kangaroo (8 types), wallaby (26 types), monjon (1 type), dorcopsis (6 types), pademelon (4 types), bettong (5 types), potoroo (3 types), rat kangaroo (1 type).
	www.ipeters.de /presentation.html (2872 words)

	Bush fires set by early settlers burned out Australian animals study says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Researchers said tests on the remains of one bird species showed it went extinct about 50,000 years ago, and indicated neither climate change nor hunting was to blame.
		Such animals, which include deer, eat a wide variety of plants, including leaves and bushes - the same plants that are destroyed in brush fires.
		Australia had many large animals before humans arrived, including Genyornis, which was about the size of an ostrich, a hippopotamus-size relative of the wombat, a Volkswagen-size tortoise and a huge snake, 8 meters long.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news99.htm (617 words)

	Extinct Australian "Lion" Was Big Biter, Expert Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two million years ago bizarre creatures roamed the Australian continent—the flesh-eating giant rat-kangaroo, the thunder bird, the marsupial wolf, and a giant monitor lizard.
		But these animals have never taken center stage in the public's imagination or even the scientific community like the large prehistoric creatures of other continents—in part, because a poor fossil record revealed few specimens that looked either large or ferocious.
		A team of Australian scientists led by Stephen Wroe, a specialist in marsupial carnivore evolution at the University of Sydney, used a new method to estimate the size of this long-extinct predator.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/03/0305_040305_TVsuperpredator.html (974 words)

	Zoos in Australia - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Many zoos focus on the high profile animals in danger, in order to attract paying visitors although there are also less popular species which contribute to biological diversity and which are necessary to keep our ecosystems healthy.
		Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, is an example of a publicly managed zoo which displays Australian animals in their natural environments, even providing a reversed day-night cycle for vistors to see nocturnal animals.
		The native animals are displayed in their own environments in natural surroundings.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/Zoo (1515 words)

	CBC News: Giant fossilized animals unearthed in Australian cave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The well-preserved lion, along with the world's largest kangaroo and a wombat the size of a small car were buried with the remains of other creatures in a cave on the Nullarbor Plain, an isolated desert area in western Australia.
		Some of the animals are thought to be newly discovered species that are about 1.5 million years old.
		Scientists don't know why the Australian fauna went extinct, but one theory is they disappeared after the arrival of humans about 60, 000 years ago.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/07/30/lion_fossil020730 (295 words)

	Animals
		There are also sections about endangered species and prehistoric animals and a map so you can see which animals live where.
		This site tells you what the rarest animals in the world are and gives you detailed information about each endangered animal, including habitat, diet, behavior, threats and reason(s) for decline.
		Endangered animals, endangered habitats, causes of endangerment, and a tour of the exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
	www.ba.k12.ok.us /schools/nihs/mediacenter/animals.htm (3023 words)

	Home -- WWF-Australia
		The rapidly growing numbers of extinct species is just one of the signs that life on earth is struggling.
		This is an executive summary of the study, which shows that Australians could pay as little as $250 each, or just $0.43/week per person if it was paid over 24 years, to achieve a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the country's electricity generation industry by 2030.
		Habitat loss kills millions of Australian animals every year and has driven the yellow-footed rock wallaby to the verge of extinction.
	www.wwf.org.au (278 words)

	Australian Country Roadsigns
		As you travel through Australia, a distinctive feature of the vast outback are the many roadsigns warning motorists of the dangers of wandering native Australian animals across the highway.
		They are classified as protected animals as their numbers are now dwindling due to extermination by farmers.
		The Platypus is a most unusual animal that lives in underwater burrows dug in rivers and streams.
	www.upfromaustralia.com /upfromaustralia/auscounroad.html (1025 words)

	Australian Animals - Boodie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was considered for many years to be extinct however, this small, thickset animal with short, rounded ears and a lightly haired, fat tail, has been found on Western Australian islands -- and has been successfully introduced to the Yookamurra sanctuary!
		This animal is also a night forager, and builds burrows several feet long.
		This is the last in the series of animals.
	www.milamba.com /australia/inhabit/animals/anim25.htm (103 words)

	Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes - Foreword
		Australia accounts for about one third of all mammal extinctions world-wide since 1600 and most extinct Australian mammals were marsupials.
		Currently, at least ten species and six subspecies of Australian marsupials are extinct and many more are threatened with extinction.
		Australian conservation biologists have the skills and knowledge to conserve all our marsupials; what is needed is commitment and resources to carry out the necessary work.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/threatened/action/marsupials/2.html (592 words)

	Animals of Australia by Jim Cornish, Gander, Newfoundland Canada
		So its animals evolved in isolation from the rest of the world into a unique and wonderful fauna.
		There are many animals on the islands of Australia and Tasmania and on the nearby islands, including New Zealand, New Guinea, and Indonesia (to name but a few).
		About 95 percent of the mammals, 70 percent of the birds, 88 percent of the reptiles and 94 percent of the frogs are found nowhere else in the world.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/australia_animals.htm (347 words)

	Scientific bias helping cause mass extinction
		Scientific bias towards the cute, unique or spectacular may be helping condemn a substantial proportion of the world's plants and animals to extinction, suggests an Australian ecologist.
		Scientists develop and use lists of extinct and threatened species to provide social and legal mandates for conservation, to report on the state of the environment and to guide the allocation of scarce resources.
		"Examination of the lists of extinct Australian species, for example, draws the inescapable conclusion that the majority of this change is due merely to an increase in knowledge of the listed species rather than any change to their chances of survival," he says.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-01/uom-sbh010902.php (853 words)

	The Thylacine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Australian continent is home to over one million species of animals, many of them unique, and many of them endangered.
		While we know of many extinct animals, There is one example which reminds us that life is fragile, and that extinct means forever, We're talking of course, about the Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, a marsupial carnivore which was wiped out of existence in the early 1930s.
		Although the Thylacine was now virtually extinct, It remained an enemy in the eyes of the settlers, who continued exterminating the animal until 1933.
	www.extinctanimal.com /the_thylacine.htm (324 words)

	The Thylacine Hunter
		Used to refer to species (or higher levels of classification) that are likely to become extinct unless the various threats and pressures affecting them cease.
		Recent extinctions are hard to prove, and an ‘official’ limit of 50 years with no recorded sightings of the species is now used.
		Australia's iconic kangaroos are being decimated by hunting and drought and the largest of the species could be extinct within 10 years, wildlife activists warned.
	www.geocities.com /thylacine_hunter (163 words)

	extinct animals -- extinct animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		British Extinct Animals 1972 ed, pp93-94 In addition to the case of deliberate release in County...
		Animal Magazine Here is some of the Internet's best information on A List Of Extinct Animals If you are looking for information on A List of Extinct Animals, then you've come to the right place.
		ABOUT FACTS NET Mother Earth Extinct Animals The photographs shown may not be of the same variety of the animal type that is extinct and are only show to give a general idea of the animal.
	www.tobald.com /extinctanimals (3812 words)

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