Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

Scientists working with Indigenous communities in Papua, Indonesia, have stunned the conservation world by confirming that ...

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.

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

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

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

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

Two tiny animals believed to have been extinct thousands of years ago have been rediscovered alive in the remote forests of Indonesia.

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, for instance, have shifted hundreds of ...

Late last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced rule changes that would impact habitats and listing or delisting ...