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Forest scincid lizard on Christmas Island and 12 animals on the list, including the desert bettong, large cheeked jumping mouse, and arena barred wallaby. The government of Australia has formally acknowledged that 13 of the endemic species went into extinction and this includes 12 mammals and the earliest reptile known to have vanished since the colonization by the Europeans.
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The increase of the dozen species of mammal species shows the inevitable position of Australia as the capital for the world mammal extinction, raising the entire number of species known to have gone into extinction to 34.
No one out of the 13 seems like a surprise. Almost all of the species extinctions are memorable, with most of them vanishing between the 1850s and 1950s. But the record also comprises two species that got lost, the pair from Christmas Island in the ocean of Indian over the last decade.
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The last week of January will be the once-a-year opportunity to experience the first full moon of 2021. the celestial event comes in many names across several places.
In the US, this winter event is called the wolf moon. Some weather-related nicknames for January s full moon include the Freeze Moon, the Frost Exploding Moon, and the Cold Moon, the Old Farmer s Almanac added.
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The full moon of January, called the Wolf Moon, will occur on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 2:16 p.m. EST (1916 GMT), according to NASA.
The moon will be in the constellation Cancer and rises just a few minutes before sunset. The full moon will serve as a great reference point for stargazers trying to find Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.