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 confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

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

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.

Strange dinosaur species found with hundreds of stones in its throat named after funk band - Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs su ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

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

Two marsupials thought extinct for 7,000 years found alive - and an iNaturalist user helped prove it.

Two species, believed extinct for thousands of years, were rediscovered alive in New Guinea, challenging our understanding of ...