Commonly known as Australia's "Easter bunny" due to its large ears and hopping movement, the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is the last of its kind. Today we published its reference genome—all ...

But a bilby—a native marsupial with long ears—was a different story: In 1968, 9-year-old Rose-Marie Dusting of Queensland wrote a story called “Billy The Aussie Easter Bilby,” which she ...