Devils are found in all habitats on the island of Tasmania, including the outskirts of urban areas, and are distributed throughout the Tasmanian mainland and on Robbins Island (which is connected to m ...
Believing it to be a type of opossum, naturalist George Harris wrote the first published description of the Tasmanian devil in 1807, naming it Didelphis ursina, due to its bearlike characteristics suc ...
Records of all specimens, many of which are in European collections, are now held in the International Thylacine Specimen Database.The Australian Museum in Sydney began a cloning project in 1999. The ...
See also: Ecological impact of the dingo after its arrival in Mainland AustraliaThe thylacine is likely to have become near-extinct in mainland Australia about 2,000 years ago, and possibly earlier in ...
The modern thylacine first appeared about 4 million years ago. Species of the family Thylacinidae date back to the beginning of the Miocene; since the early 1990s, at least seven fossil species have b ...
There is no general agreement (scientific or otherwise) regarding what the dingo is, in a biological sense, since it has been called "wolf," "dingo," "dog," and "wild dog". Even within the scientific ...
European domestic dogs first arrived in Australia during the European colonisation. These dogs reverted to the wild (both unintentionally and intentionally), produced feral populations and interbred w ...
Opinion is divided about the keeping of dingoes as pets or as working dogs. Some consider the dingo unsuitable for domestication, while others see a domesticated dingo as no different from any other d ...
The dingo is suspected to have caused the extinction of the thylacine, the Tasmanian devil and the Tasmanian Native-hen from mainland Australia, since a correlation in space and time is found between ...
The dingo has several names in both scientific and non-scientific literature, with "dingo" being the most commonly used. In Australia, the term "wild dog" is also widely used, but generally includes d ...
The term "megafauna" is usually applied to large animals (over 100 kg). In Australia, however, megafauna were never as large as those found on other continents, and so a more lenient criterion of over ...
The Murray Mouth is the point at which the Murray River empties into the sea, and the interaction between its shallow, shifting and variable currents and the open sea can be complex and unpredictable. ...
The Murray River forms part of the 3,750 km (2,330 mi) long combined Murray-Darling river system which drains most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland. Overall the catchment a ...
Arnhem Land has been occupied by indigenous people for tens of thousands of years and is the location of the oldest-known stone axe, which scholars believe to be 35,500 years old. The Gove Peninsula w ...
The complete system of Yolngu Law is known as the Ma?ayin. Ma?ayin embodies the rights of the owners of the law, or citizens (rom watangu walal) who have the rights and responsibilities for this emb ...
