The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say ...

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

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

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 ...

SCIENTISTS have hailed the “exceptional” discovery of two tiny creatures that were long believed to have gone extinct more than 6,000 years ago. Until now, ancient fossils of the pygmy ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums, are tiny tree-dwelling marsupials that might be mistaken for rodents. The large-eared, long-tailed critters grow no longer than 5 to 6 ...

Scientists just found evidence of a rare tiny marsupial hiding out in a completely unexpected place. New evidence of the world’s smallest possum has emerged hundreds of kilometers from where it’s ...

A tiny mammal, smaller than an adult human thumb, has been found on the island that was ravaged by the 2019-20 bushfires in southern Australian – Kangaroo Island, according to the New York Post.