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Photo: Tasmanian devil yawning
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This yawning Tasmanian devil was photographed at a quarantine facility in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The site monitors devils for signs of devil facial tumor disease (DFTC), a fatal, contagious cancer that over the past decade has decimated wild populations of the iconic Australian marsupial.
Photograph by Ian Waldie/Getty Images

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