Its bones had been sleeping in a museum for more than a century, falsely catalogued as belonging to the only species of koala that still exists on Australian soil. In fact, the country has sheltered two different species, one of which disappeared about 30,000 years ago.
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Its bones had been sleeping in a museum for more than a century, falsely catalogued as belonging to the only species of koala that still exists on Australian soil. In fact, the country has sheltered two different species, one of which disappeared about 30,000 years ago.