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Silvabestius johnnilandi
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/silvabestius-johnnilandi/Silvabestius johnnilandi was a rare, sheep-sized diprotodontoid marsupial, one of the smallest and most primitive discovered to date. Silvabestius would have been a browser, feeding on leaves, stems and other soft parts of plants.
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Palorchestes azeal
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/palorchestes-azeal/Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore with retracted nasal bones on the skull, suggesting that it may have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Palorchestes also had powerful forelimbs and large, compressed claws that it may have used to pull up shrubs or tear at the bark of trees.
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Bigeye Barracuda, Sphyraena forsteri (Cuvier, 1829)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/bigeye-barracuda-sphyraena-forsteri-cuvier-1829/Bigeye Barracuda, Sphyraena forsteri (Cuvier, 1829)
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Eastern Blue Groper, Achoerodus viridis (Steindachner, 1866)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/eastern-blue-groper-achoerodus-viridis/Eastern Blue Groper, Achoerodus viridis (Steindachner, 1866)
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Sailfin Tang, Zebrasoma veliferum (Bloch, 1795)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/sailfin-tang-zebrasoma-veliferum-bloch-1797/Sailfin Tang, Zebrasoma veliferum (Bloch, 1795)
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Riversleigh Rainforest Koala
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/nimiokoala-greystanesi/Nimiokoala greystanesi was a small koala from the early Miocene of northern Australia. It had a longer snout than the living koala but was only about a third of its size. Nimiokoala is represented by a well preserved skull, a significant discovery since koalas are rare in the fossil record.
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Baru darrowi
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/baru-darrowi/Baru darrowi, a massive crocodile from the Miocene of northern Australia, was one of the largest of the mekosuchines, an extinct group of Australasian crocodiles. Although about as large as the living Saltwater Crocodile, Baru may have been more terrestrial in its habits.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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