An endangered numbat has been filmed peeking out of a log and showing off its long tongue. Wildlife photographer Mark Jackman travelled to Boyagin Nature Reserve, 130km south-east of Perth, hoping ...

How To Feed A Numbat: ... "Imagine there's an anthill and you lick it with your tongue. Half of that is just dirt." Sponsor Message. The staff at the Perth Zoo started trying to breed numbats in 1993.

Thorn is a biologist and researcher who studies numbats at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2022, Thorn and colleagues published a study showing that remote-sensor camera traps ...

Photographers say the numbat's shy nature mean it is difficult to get a good picture — especially one where the rare marsupial is unfurling its extraordinarily long tongue hunting for termites.

This week’s reader photo of a numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) was captured by Sjoerd van Berge Henegouwen in the Dryandra Woodlands, a nature conservation area south-east of Perth. Numbats face an ...

Both these enigmatic creatures have stripes, but that’s not where the similarity ends—as much as 95% of their DNA may be identical.. Decoding the full numbat genome therefore raises the tantalizing ...

We're siding with Buzzfeed on this one: The numbat, an Australian relative of the anteater, is pretty freaking awesome. Let us learn a bit more about our new favorite creature via the Perth Zoo, ...

The numbat is one of the Tasmanian tiger’s closest surviving relatives. And its newly sequenced genome raises the possibility of piecing together the genetic code of its extinct fellow marsupial.

Aussie scientists are one step closer to bringing the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction after successfully mapping the genome of their closest living relative, the numbat.