Melomys rubicola was a species of rodent that lived in a cay off northeastern Australia; it was declared extinct in 2016.
>lived in a cay>a cay>awhy didn’t they spread out?
>>5141533Now if I go look this fucking up am I going to find out that this animal is actually a subspecies of a much more common species that was granted its own species status for an unwarranted reason so an agenda could be pushed?
>>5141589Seems to have been the case. It always is with these stories.
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>>5141589It was never considered a subspecies
>>5141635It should have been. It's essentially indistinguishable from the most common species of Melomys.
>>5141692different species can look similar
Horse. I'd have loved to have seen one in person. They're all gone now. How could this have happened?
>>5141862Oh no! The 3/4 yellow line beetle that only lived on one tree went extinct!! Now we only have the 5/8 yellow line beetle found all over the continent! This is proof you need to start eating bugs to make the weather better.
>>5141763How old ARE you?
>>5142066you're voluntarily on an animal board and don't have the basic understanding of how fragile ecosystems are or how extinctions can be used for modeling past present and future eventsjust keep betting on sports and jacking off and try not to think too hard or you might hurt yourself
