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Stories about: Tasmanian devil

Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction The Tasmanian devil populations are in serious decline, notifies the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its latest report. While the devils had a "least concern" rating a decade ago, the Union decided to move their threat level to "endangered". In some habitats, the populations decreased by as m... 16 October 2008 10:20 GMT Tasmanian Devils Fend Off Cancer by Breeding Early Fatal facial cancer tumors have been ravaging the Tasmanian devil populations ever since the mid 1990s, killing up to one third of the total number of the world's largest surviving carnivorous marsupials in the last decade or so. The fatal devil facial tumour disease (which in Tasmanian devils is probably spread... 15 July 2008 05:20 GMT