So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

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

An ancient species has had experts scratching their heads about its unusual jaw shape. The salamander-like creature had a ...

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

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

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

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 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 ...

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

Scientists have discovered mosquitoes can act like tiny "flying wildlife surveyors," helping researchers detect elusive and endangered animals in Australia's national parks. A team from Macquarie ...