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The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), sometimes inaccurately called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae .
The journey must not have been easy; South American ungulate [92] [93] [94] and xenarthran [95] remains have been found in Antarctica, but these groups did not reach Australia. In Australia, marsupials radiated into the wide variety seen today, including not only omnivorous and carnivorous forms such as were present in South America, but also ...
Koala conservation organisations, programs and government legislation are concerned with the declining population of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus), a well known Australian marsupial found in gum trees. The Australian government declared the species as endangered by extinction in 2022.
Koala wasn't the only shark to turn up dead on Cape Cod beaches this week. On Wednesday, Dennis resident Bob Amaral, a photographer, came across a dead porbeagle shark on Chapin Beach in Dennis.
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The koala is listed in national conservation legislation as "Phascolarctos cinereus (combined populations of Qld, NSW and the ACT)", previously determined in 2012 to be "a species for the purposes of the EPBC act 1999" . [7] The koala was classified as Least Concern on the Red List, and reassessed as Vulnerable in 2014. [8]
Fran Dias Rufino, who moved to Australia from Brazil, and her husband Brunno Rufino, reached home around 12.30am on 13 November and found an adult koala bear sitting on the floor next to their bed.
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