Discover 15 amazing animals that were thought to be extinct but were found alive. These are nature's greatest comebacks.

Two tiny marsupials once written off as extinct for around 6,000 or even 7,000 years have been found alive in dense rainforest, turning a remote corner of New Guinea into a global conservation focal ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen Arman Muharmansyah/Australian Museum Two marsupials ...

Sometimes, nature delivers a surprise that feels almost miraculous. Scientists have confirmed that two small marsupial species — the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider — are still ...

Two species of marsupials thought to have been extinct for the past 6,000 years have been found very much alive on the island of New Guinea. The two Lazarus species, named after a biblical figure who ...

It's rare to identify a new genus of mammals. Currently, there are only an estimated 1,360 mammalian genera. Well, 1,361 now thanks to Tous.

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

Scientists have confirmed the survival of two marsupial species in Papua, Indonesia, previously believed extinct for about 6,000 years. The pygmy long-fingered possum and a newly described ring-tailed ...