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Tyrone Lavery, Research fellow, Australian National University

Extinct or just missing? The curious case of the native blue-grey mouse

Penny Gale, Fabriculture, Author provided

From all accounts, Australia’s blue-grey mouse was a charming little creature. The famous British zoologist Oldfield Thomas of London’s Natural History Museum first described the species in 1910 and named it Pseudomys glaucus.

Within half a century, the species had seemingly disappeared, leaving behind only three scientific specimens. Since then, two of these have been lost.

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