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    • Professor Thomas Hildebrandt

    Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne; Head, Department for Reproduction Management, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

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    Sciences & Technology

    The wallaby that's permanently pregnant

    The swamp wallaby, an iconic Australian marsupial, has accomplished an incredible reproductive feat as the only mammal known to be pregnant and lactating throughout the female’s entire adult life

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    Sciences & Technology

    Bringing back the northern white rhino from ‘extinction’

    There are only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, but the species could soon make a comeback thanks to assisted reproductive technologies and a little help from their southern cousins

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