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Brown Antechinus
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/brown-antechinus/Greyish-brown above and paler below, large thin ears, tail same length as body or shorter.
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Black Rat
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/black-rat/This rat was probably introduced to Sydney with the First Fleet.
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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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Shepherd's Beaked Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/shepherds-beaked-whale/Shepherd's Beaked Whales, are known only from less than thirty stranded animals and a few unconfirmed sightings of live animals.
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Thylacoleo carnifex
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/thylacoleo-carnifex/Thylacoleo carnifex, the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known, may have hunted other Pleistocene megafauna like the giant Diprotodon. Thylacoleo was one of the first fossil mammals described from Australia, discovered not long after European settlement.
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False Killer Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/false-killer-whale/The False Killer Whale, Pseudorca crassidens is a slender dark dolphin-size whale with a small, rounded conical head.
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Bush Rat
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/bush-rat/The Bush Rat can be quite difficult to find because of its nocturnal habits and also because it prefers to nest hidden in dense forest.
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Red-necked Pademelon
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/red-necked-pademelon/Brownish-grey wallaby, paler ventrally, with distinct reddish neck and shoulders, short tailed.
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Sperm Whale
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/sperm-whale/The Sperm Whale is the classic whale of 'Moby Dick' fame, and is the largest of the toothed whales.
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Koala
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/koala/The Koala is one of Australia's best-known animals.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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