Australian rodent first known mammal made extinct by climate change

The Australian government this week formally recognized the extinction of a small rodent native to the northern area of the Great Barrier Reef, marking the first known case of mammalian extinction caused by human-induced climate change.The Bramble Cay melomys, roughly 14-16 centimeters in length, was found only on Bramble Cay, a small coral island just 340 meters long and 150 meters wide in the Torres Strait, between the northern Australian state of Queensland and Papua New Guinea.After the Queensland state government declared the species extinct in the wild in 2016, its status was quietly …READ FULL ARTICLE