A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...

Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, ...

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 ...

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 years. For decades, the researchers have thought these species to ...

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

Researchers in Australia were scrolling through thousands of trail camera photos when they spotted an unmistakable bushy tail on the screen. They were overjoyed: The images showed a Leadbeater’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Possums can be the subject of cute fascination, morbid curiosity (quite literally, these creatures play dead as a defense ...