Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By ...
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Two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years just turned up alive in a Papua rainforest
Deep in the rainforests of Papua, Indonesia, two marsupial species that scientists believed had been extinct for roughly 6,000 years are alive. A pygmy long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider, ...
Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen Arman Muharmansyah/Australian Museum Two marsupials ...
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 ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi’s role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago. Scientists from the Bishop Museum and ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Two marsupial species thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years have been rediscovered as living animals. On Thursday, Bishop Museum, along with the State of Hawaii Museum ...
Two marsupial species scientists believed had vanished more than 6,000 years ago have been discovered alive in the remote rainforests of Western New Guinea. The discovery was detailed in studies ...
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