For more than two decades, the only proof that a ring-tailed glider once lived on the Bird’s Head Peninsula of Papua, Indonesia, was a handful of bones pulled from a cave. Then field researchers ...

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 long-fingered ...

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 ...