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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (WKRC) - A wild cat that was considered "possibly extinct" by scientists for decades was once again found in the wild, proving to be a "significant win for conservation." The ...

A rare animal that was previously believed to be extinct has been captured on hidden trail cameras in California, according to a new study Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal ...

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.