"[Two] cupboards, known within the [Australian Museum in Sydney] as the “extinction cabinets”, contain specimens of 24 of the 39 mammal species that have been wiped out since Europeans invaded Australia"
"...manager of the mammalogy collection, Dr Sandy Ingleby,...took on the task of assembling them not long after she joined the museum in 1996"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/13/australian-museum-extinction-cabinets-endangered-species
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