Even platypuses aren't safe from bushfires – a new DNA study tracks their disappearance
- Written by Emily McColl-Gausden, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne
When the Black Summer bushfires swept across eastern Australia in 2019–20, thousands of animal species lived in the path of these megafires.
You’d be forgiven for thinking water-dwelling animals like platypuses were spared. Surely animals living in rivers and streams would be safe?
But our new research, published today in Biological...
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