In 2026, two tiny marsupials that were long written off as extinct were found alive in one of Earth's most remote and biodiverse regions.
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Scientists thought these marsupials went extinct 6,000 years ago. They just found the animals alive
Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, ...
Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...
Two marsupials thought extinct for 7,000 years found alive - and an iNaturalist user helped prove it.
Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...
Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...
Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.
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