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

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

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

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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.

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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 ...

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

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

Two species of marsupials thought to have been extinct for the past 6,000 years have been found very much alive on the island of New Guinea.