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

Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, which lies north of Australia. One is the pygmy long-fingered ...

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.

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 ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

Helgen identified the ring-tailed glider after seeing a photograph of the gliding ring-tailed possum in the wild and recognizing it as one of the species Aplin had previously classified as extinct.

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

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 ...

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

A citizen scientist's wildlife photo helped researchers confirm two marsupial species thought extinct for over 7,000 years are still alive.

Researchers working with indigenous communities in Papua, Indonesia, have confirmed the survival of a ring-tailed glider and a pygmy long-fingered possum.