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

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

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 ...

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, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, ...

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

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

Two marsupials thought extinct for 7,000 years found alive - and an iNaturalist user helped prove it.

Deep in the heart of Martu Country lies Karlamilyi National Park. Red rock and red sand stretch as far as the eye can see. Within some of these rocky outcrops, live a small population of wiminyji ...

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