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 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 ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

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

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

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 ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

A research team traveled to South Africa’s Umzimkhulu River in 2017 with a specific mission: find surviving pockets of the Maluti redfin minnow, a species declared extinct after introduced trout ...

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