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We checked 2,000 museum specimens and discovered a tiny new 'ferocious' Australian mammal

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By Andrew Baker Verified, Lisa Lock, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Phys.org Verified
Some planigales can weigh less than a teaspoonful of water. Despite their size, these fierce predators often take on prey as big as themselves. Credit: Ian Bool/Australian Wildlife Conservancy Australia is home to unusual mammals not found anywhere else—consider the platypus, Tasmanian devil or red kangaroo. But did you know our understanding of this continent's incredible mammalian diversity is still incomplete?
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We checked 2000 museum specimens and discovered a tiny new ‘ferocious’ Australian mammal Original

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By Andrew Baker Verified
| The Conversation Verified
Australia is home to unusual mammals not found anywhere else – consider the platypus, Tasmanian devil or the red kangaroo. But did you know our understanding of this continent’s incredible mammalian diversity is still incomplete? We have discovered a new species in one of Australia’s cutest and fiercest mammal groups: planigales. And we also unearthed a second new planigale species, from a 100-year-old specimen held in a Swedish museum.
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Forget time zones, young fans will watch the World Cup their way

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By Andrew Baker Verified
| SportsPro Verified
Image credit: Getty Images When the circus rolls into North America for the 2026 Fifa World Cup, we won’t just be seeing the biggest sporting event in history. We’re going to see a demonstration of how football is consumed and experienced by youth culture at the largest scale possible. We know this partly because we’ve been following our own fans’ media consumption habits, whether that’s been across Goal, Mundial, or YouTube-first shows like Front Three and the Beast Mode On Podcast.
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