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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, ...

Two Marsupials Thought to Be Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered Alive in Remote Rainforest

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

Two New Marsupials Discovered in New Guinea Were Thought to Have Been Extinct for 6,000 Years

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

Australia’s “Black Summer” Killed or Displaced 3 Billion Animals—And Some Species May Never Fully Recover

The planet has seen a number of devastating fires in recent years. From California to Canada, Thailand, and Algeria, no part ...
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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.

2 'Lazarus' animals thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years found alive in New Guinea

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...
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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 ...
New Scientist

Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive

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 ...
Good News Network

Marsupials Previously Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered: ‘A once-in-a-lifetime discovery’

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...
Forbes

Meet 4 ‘Extinct’ Animals That Were Miraculously Rediscovered (Hint: One Was An Ancient Fish Found In A Fishing Net In 1938)

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 ...
The Conversation

Extinctions of Australian mammals have long been blamed on foxes and cats – but where’s the evidence?

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...