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  1.   Australia's pouched %F,10,h\marsupia%marsupials were
  2. puzzling to early European explorers,
  3. who knew about only one marsupial--
  4. the American opossum. "The koolah or
  5. sloth," one explorer wrote in l813,
  6. "is likewise an animal of the opossum
  7. species, with a false belly." But
  8. eventually, scientists realized that
  9. koalas and opossums were not closely
  10. related.
  11.