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, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, ...

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

The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct ...

A northern quoll is a nocturnal marsupial with reddish-brown fur and a cream underside, according to Australian Wildlife. The ...

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...