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While visiting New Guinea in summer 2018, British tourist Michael Smith, an amateur botanist, achieved something most professional zoologists can only dream of – he rediscovered (and photographed) a very distinctive creature hitherto known to science from just one specimen collected way back in 1928. Namely, the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo , a brown-furred, bear-like arboreal marsupial – a single but very much alive specimen of).

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