Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...
The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, ...
The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says ...
A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.
Hawaiʻi's role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished ...
The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.
Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of ...
A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...
A group of paleontologists and zoologists led by Timothy Flannery from the Australian Museum Research Institute has found that two species of marsupials, the ring—tailed flying couscous (Petauroides ...
The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, ...