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'Devastated': scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change

2016-06-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Bramble Cay melomys has become more famous in extinction than it ever was in life. A mouse-like rodent, the melomys amazingly survived on a 3.6 hectare grass-covered cay (a low-lying island in a coral reef) in Australias Great Barrier Reef like a ratty Robinson Crusoe for thousands of years. There, it thrived off just a few plant species until human-caused climate change--in the form of rising sea levels and increasing inundations of sea water on the low-lying island--wiped it off the planet....

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