So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

The two marsupials were found living in the remote rainforests on the Vogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea.

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...