Platypuses disappeared from Australia’s oldest national park decades ago.
Now scientists are bringing them back, helping reestablish a long-lost link in the local food chain.
A new study suggests that the reintroduction program is working — nearly all of the released platypuses are alive, and they’re having babies, demonstrating that rewilding iconic species can work.
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