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Scientists thought these marsupials went extinct 6,000 years ago. They just found the animals alive
Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, ...
Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...
Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...
Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...
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These marsupials were thought extinct for 6,000 years. Scientists found them alive in remote rainforest
The two marsupials were found living in the remote rainforests on the Vogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea.
The planet has seen a number of devastating fires in recent years. From California to Canada, Thailand, and Algeria, no part ...
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...
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 have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...
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Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years, These Tiny Marsupials Have Just Been Rediscovered
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 ...
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 ...
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