If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...
A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...
He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...
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 ...
The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says ...
Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...
Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...
The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.
Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...
The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say ...
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Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
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.
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