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

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

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

In an exceptional scientific discovery, scientists have found a tiny possum and ring-tailed glider in West Papua after 6,000 ...

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 ...

A search for a fish lost to extinction led to a brand-new species hiding in a South African river.

Humans were moving between Siberia and northern China far earlier than thought, according to a new study that offers a ...