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

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

SCIENTISTS have hailed the “exceptional” discovery of two tiny creatures that were long believed to have gone extinct more than 6,000 years ago. Until now, ancient fossils of the pygmy ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

The official state small mammal of Texas is rapidly spreading across North Carolina. Scientists say armadillos likely will be in all 100 counties within the next 10 to 15 years.

They were gone for 6,000 years. Turns out, they were just hiding. Two marsupial species that scientists believed had vanished ...