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Tassie Devils Are Active Social Networkers
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Simone
- 117 days ago - abc.net.au
The Tasmanian devil is more social than we think, making it difficult to control the spread of the disease that is decimating its numbers, say researchers. Ecologist Rodrigo Hamede of the University of Tasmania and colleagues report their work today
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Australia's Tasmanian Devil Declared Endangered
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Cher
- 188 days ago - all-creatures.org
Australia's Tasmanian devil, the world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, will be listed as endangered because of a contagious and deadly cancer, the government said.
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Tasmanian Devils Listed as Endangered in Australia
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Cher
- 206 days ago - denverpost.com
The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz, was listed in Australia as an endangered species Friday because of a contagious cancer that has wiped out most of the wild population.
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Test to Detect Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease
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Cher
- 256 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
RESEARCHERS have developed the first diagnostic test for the deadly Devil Facial Tumour Disease, in a breakthrough scientists hope will help save the Tasmanian devil from extinction.
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Tassie Devil Appeal - Australia
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Chrissy
- 265 days ago - tassiedevilappeal.org
Tasmanian Devils are an iconic Australian species, unique to Tasmania and the largest remaining carnivorous marsupial in the world since the extinction of its' cousin, the Tasmanian Tiger, last century. Due to a deadly disease, devils could soon be extinc
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Tasmanian Devils Named Endangered Species
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Cher
- 571 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
The Tasmanian devil, a feisty marsupial that lives only in the Australian island state of Tasmania, was deemed an endangered species this week by the state's government.
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Tasmanian Devil to Get Endangered Species Listing
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Cher
- 573 days ago - rawstory.com
Australia's Tasmanian devil will be listed as an endangered species this week as a result of a deadly and disfiguring cancer outbreak, the state government said Monday.
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Devils to Be Listed as Endangered Species
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Cher
- 591 days ago - abc.net.au
A deadly facial tumour disease has so depleted the wild population of tasmanian devils that the species is now about to be declared endangered. More than half of the wild devil population has been wiped out by the disease, with researchers scrambling to
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Devils May Be Developing Disease Resistance
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Jacquelin
- 682 days ago - abc.net.au
A new report shows some populations of tasmanian devils may have developed resistance to the deadly facial tumour disease. In parts of Tasmania up to 90 per cent of the devil population has been wiped out by a contagious cancer-like facial tumour disea
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Tassie Devils in Toxic Chemicals Shock
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Ali
- 693 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au
Scientists have found high levels of potentially carcinogenic flame retardant chemicals in Tasmanian devils. The discovery is certain to fuel a global campaign to ban the use of such chemicals, The Australian newspaper reports.
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Tassie Devil Cancer 'Not at Healesville'
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Jacquelin
- 788 days ago - smh.com.au
Fears that a deadly disease killing thousands of wild Tasmanian Devils had appeared in a mainland "insurance" population have been allayed with negative test results. Veterinary pathologists from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries and Water (D
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Tasmanian Devil Falling Prey to Cancer
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Jacquelin
- 797 days ago - news.aol.com
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A lack of genetic diversity in Australia's Tasmanian Devil means it has failed to launch an immune defense response to a facial cancer decimating populations, Australian researchers say. The facial cancer produces large tumors on th
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Tassie Devil Tumour Breakthrough Made
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- 802 days ago - news.com.au
RESEARCHERS have made a breakthrough in understanding a disease that has wiped out more than half the Tasmanian devil population, but say there is no easy solution for stopping its transmission.
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Tassie Devil Tumour Breakthrough Made
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Ali
- 802 days ago - news.com.au
RESEARCHERS have made a breakthrough in understanding a disease that has wiped out more than half the Tasmanian devil population, but say there is no easy solution for stopping its transmission.
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Video: Tasmanian Devils Battle Gruesome Cancer
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Jacquelin
- 917 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
June 8, 2007--Australia's scrappy and ferocious Tasmanian devils may have finally met their match--an outbreak of cancer that has swept across Tasmania. Since the 1990s the lymphatic cancer--which results in gruesome facial tumors--has wiped out at least
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