We checked 2000 museum specimens and discovered a tiny new ‘ferocious’ Australian mammal

By Andrew M. Baker, Associate Professor in Ecology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology

Australia is home to unusual mammals not found anywhere else – consider the platypus, Tasmanian devil or the red kangaroo.

But did you know our understanding of this continent’s incredible mammalian diversity is still incomplete?

We have discovered a new species in one of Australia’s cutest and fiercest mammal groups: planigales. And we also unearthed a second new planigale species, from a 100-year-old specimen held in a Swedish museum.

In the past five years alone, there have been 20…

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