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 ...

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 ...

Lost marsupials have been found alive in New Guinea after 6,000 years, highlighting hidden biodiversity and conservation urgency.

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

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 ...

Hawaiʻi's role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago.

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 ...

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

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

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