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

Lost marsupials have been found alive in New Guinea after 6,000 years, highlighting hidden biodiversity and conservation urgency.

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 ...

Two species of marsupials thought to have been extinct for the past 6,000 years have been found very much alive on the island of New Guinea.

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

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, ...

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

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have rediscovered two marsupial species in New Guinea that were believed to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago. The ...