Mammals > Marsupials
The Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) is a robust terrestrial marsupial native to the tropical and subtropical margins of northern and eastern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea. Recognized as the largest member of the family Peramelidae, this...
Mammals > Marsupials
OverviewThe Northern Quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) is the smallest, most agile, and most arboreal of Australia’s four native quoll species, belonging to the carnivorous marsupial family Dasyuridae. Native across the rugged tropical savannas, sandstone ranges, and...
Reptiles > Lizards
OverviewThe Gouldian Monitor (Varanus gouldii), universally known throughout the Australian bush as the Sand Goanna, is one of the most widespread, ecologically vital, and culturally celebrated large monitor lizards in Australia. Revered in Indigenous Australian...
Mammals > Marsupials
OverviewThe Mountain Pygmy Possum (Burramys parvus) is Australia’s only exclusively alpine mammal and the sole marsupial on Earth known to undergo prolonged, true seasonal winter hibernation beneath the snowpack. Astonishingly, this ancient ‘living...
Mammals > Marsupials
OverviewThe Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei), also affectionately known as the brush-tailed marsupial rat, is a feisty, small carnivorous marsupial endemic to the harshest arid stony deserts of central Australia. Belonging to the family Dasyuridae alongside quolls,...
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