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[VIDEO] Nothing to See Here, Just Skiing With a Duck-Billed Platypus

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Have you ever skied with a Duck-Billed Platypus!? @mark.oates in Tasmania has, and shared this awesome video with us. So cool… According to Wikipedia, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus […]
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Tasmanian Devils Return to Australian Wild After 3,000 years

3,000 years later, Tasmanian devils are back in the wild on Australia’s mainland after going extinct there. Tasmanian Devils have continued to live on the island of Tasmania right up to the modern day. “The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was once native to mainland Australia and was only found in the wild on the island state of Tasmania. It has […]
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Tasmania Experiences Coldest Morning Ever Recorded | First Snow in Living Memory for Many Residents

Tasmania just recorded its coldest morning EVER on record and residents of the southern Australian island state woke to find about an inch of snow on the ground this morning, following an unusually cold spell in the region. Related: New Snow in Australia: City Records Coldest Temperatures in 80 Years The previous cold record was 8ºF (-13.0C) in Tarraleah Village […]
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