Scientists just found evidence of a rare tiny marsupial hiding out in a completely unexpected place. New evidence of the world’s smallest possum has emerged hundreds of kilometers from where it’s ...

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

Pygmy possums have been found hundreds of kilometers from where they're known to occur in southern Australia — a finding that potentially extends the range of this locally threatened species.

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

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

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 discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The little pygmy possum is the smallest mammal in Australia. The little pygmy possum is only currently known to exist in Tasmania, ...

The lemuroid ringtail possum is one of 34 species that have just been added to Australia's threatened species list. The lemuroid ringtail possum is just one animal facing the challenges associated ...

In an exceptional scientific discovery, scientists have found a tiny possum and ring-tailed glider in West Papua after 6,000 years. For decades, the researchers have thought these species to ...

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

Scientists have revealed new details about ancient fish more than 400 million years old, which became the ancestors of ...