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Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct By Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct By Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

by The Daily Eye Team June 16 2016, 10:02 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secs

Australia — Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change.
The rodent was known to have lived only on Bramble Cay, a minuscule atoll in the northeast Torres Strait, between the Cape York Peninsula in the Australian state of Queensland and the southern shores of Papua New Guinea. The long-tailed, whiskered creature, called the Bramble Cay melomys, was considered the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef.

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