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, ...

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

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Anatomy of a disastrous success: the brushtail possum as an invasive species / Mick Clout and Kris Ericksen -- Possum feeding patterns: dietary tactics of a reluctant folivore / Graham Nugent, Peter ...