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World Service,3 mins

The species "made extinct" by climate change

World Update

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Scientists believe climate change has driven a mammalian species into extinction for the very first time. Dr Luke Leung of Australia's University of Queensland explains what happened to the Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent-like creature native to the Great Barrier Reef (Photo: Bramble Cay melomys. Courtesy of University of Queensland)

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