They stumbled on a nest of bizarre, spiky creatures—one closer look reveals their jaw-dropping identities!
For decades, the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)—an elusive, cat-sized marsupial carnivore native to Australia—hovered on the brink of extinction. Once widespread across the continent, quoll populations collapsed dramatically following European settlement, habitat loss, introduced predators, and other human-mediated pressures. Today, however, conservationists are celebrating a landmark success: the first evidence of pouch young at Mt…
