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It’s a northern marsupial mole, says BBC News, a rare denizen of the Australian outback that’s so elusive “authorities don’t even know how many there are”. The palm-sized creatures are blind, with “silky golden locks”, a stumpy tail and flipper-like hands. As they live in sand dunes and rarely come up to the surface, sightings typically occur only a few times a decade – this one was stumbled upon by Aboriginal rangers in the Great Sandy Desert.
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