Sadly, it’s already too late for dozens of species, including the Stephens Island wren (a flightless songbird), the crescent nailtail wallaby, and the adorable desert bandicoot.

One of the three species, the crescent nailtail wallaby, is already extinct. Bridled nailtail wallabies can be recognised from the white “bridal” banding, which is a feature of the wallaby’s ...

Feral cats are reckoned to be culprits in 27 of those disappearances: among them the desert bandicoot, the crescent nailtail wallaby and the large-eared hopping mouse. Cats probably arrived in ...

They have already directly contributed to extinctions of more than 20 of our Australian mammals, like the rusty numbat, the desert bandicoot, the broad-faced potoroo and the crescent nailtail wallaby.

The last to perish was the crescent nail-tail wallaby — a miniature wallaby the size of a hare — which disappeared from western and central Australia in 1956.

Sadly, we’ve lost dozens of animal species over the last several decades, among them North America’s magnificent ivory-billed woodpecker, the Caribbean monk seal, and the crescent nail-tail ...