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Sascha Pare

Extremely rare marsupial mole that 'expertly navigates' sand dunes spotted in Western Australia

A northern marsupial mole eating a gecko.

Aboriginal rangers have spotted an extremely elusive, palm-size marsupial mole with lucious blond locks in a remote corner of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, rare new pictures show.

Northern marsupial moles (Notoryctes caurinus) are known by the Martu — the traditional owners of a large part of central Western Australia — as Kakarratul and live in the sand dunes of the Australian outback. The creatures are so rarely sighted that their population size remains a total mystery, the BBC reported.

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