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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.’ ...

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 ...

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

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 ...