More information: Carolyn J. Hogg et al, Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024).

The bilby is a rare marsupial that has long ears, a long muzzle, silky fur and a pouch like a kangaroo. Males grow to about the same size as a rabbit. But the animal is in trouble. Only some 600 are ...

Cameras, bioacoustic recorders and thermal scopes are being placed in Queensland's Channel Country in a bid to bring the ...

launched Bilby in 2021. He named the company after an Australian marsupial, a desert-dwelling, rodent-like creature with outsize ears that give it unusually good hearing, akin to the company's ...

Rabbit-eared Australian marsupials are being hunted out of existence by foxes and feral cats in their environment. Now scientists are exposing bilbies to cats in a fenced reserve in hopes of ...

Jannico spent each morning walking the sand dunes of a conservation reserve in South Australia, searching for footprints that this rabbit-sized marsupial may have left the night before. Finding tracks ...

Bilby's association with the Easter celebration ... underway at Astrelba Downs National Park, a stronghold for the marsupial. In many pre-Christian societies, eggs held associations with spring ...