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Jake Newman-Martin, PhD candidate, Curtin University

We discovered three new species of marsupial. Unfortunately, they're already extinct

Crest-tailed mulgara (_Dasycercus cristicauda_) from the Simpson Desert, Queensland. Bobby Tamayo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Australia is famous for its diverse and unique marsupials, and infamous for its world-leading rate of mammal extinctions.

In our latest research, we have added new names to the list of Australian marsupials – and at the same time, new entries to the grim catalogue of species driven to extinction since European colonisation.

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