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Notoryctidae or marsupial moles, is a order of mammals of the order Notoryctemorphia. They are rare and poorly understood burrowing mammals of the deserts of Western Australia, with an ancestry going back 20 million years or so. Once classified as a monotreme, they are now thought to be a marsupial, though a recent non-peer-reviewed preprint suggests they may instead be a member of the Dryolestida, an otherwise extinct group of mammals.

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  • Notoryctidae
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  • Notoryctidae or marsupial moles, is a order of mammals of the order Notoryctemorphia. They are rare and poorly understood burrowing mammals of the deserts of Western Australia, with an ancestry going back 20 million years or so. Once classified as a monotreme, they are now thought to be a marsupial, though a recent non-peer-reviewed preprint suggests they may instead be a member of the Dryolestida, an otherwise extinct group of mammals.
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  • Notoryctidae
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  • Notoryctes
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  • Mammalia
  • ?Australidelphia
  • ?Marsupialia/?Dryolestoidea
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  • Notoryctidae
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  • Notoryctemorphia
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  • Notoryctidae or marsupial moles, is a order of mammals of the order Notoryctemorphia. They are rare and poorly understood burrowing mammals of the deserts of Western Australia, with an ancestry going back 20 million years or so. Once classified as a monotreme, they are now thought to be a marsupial, though a recent non-peer-reviewed preprint suggests they may instead be a member of the Dryolestida, an otherwise extinct group of mammals. Marsupial moles spend most of their time underground, coming to the surface only occasionally, probably mostly after rains. They are blind, their eyes having become reduced to vestigial lenses under the skin, and they have no external ears, just a pair of tiny holes hidden under thick hair. It is debated whether or not marsupial moles dig permanent burrows or simply fill their tunnels in behind them as they move.
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