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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

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

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