Unlucky Tasmanian devils suffer not one but two kinds of transmissible cancer

Tasmanian devils are an improbably unlucky species.

First, they are nearly wiped out by an unusual cancer that spreads when the fierce marsupials bite one another in the face. And now, scientists have discovered a second transmissible cancer that spreads the same way.

The revelation suggests that...

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