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Nature 439, 530 (2 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439530a; Published online 1 February 2006
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Endangered species: Time to raise the devil
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- Carina Dennis is Nature's Australasian correspondent.
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A horrible facial cancer is decimating the Tasmanian devil population. But researchers in Australia think they have found a way to save the species. Carina Dennis reports.
Checking her research traps at dawn, Billie Lazenby was saddened to find a female Tasmanian devil with a face marred by cancerous lumps. She had contracted devil facial-tumour disease, a deadly transmissible cancer that is threatening the survival of this feisty marsupial.
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