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

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.

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

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 ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to revive extinct animals and save endangered ones.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

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

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

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

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.

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