So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been ...

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

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 ...

How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.