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 ...

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

Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Strange dinosaur species found with hundreds of stones in its throat named after funk band - Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs su ...

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.