A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

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

Scientists have identified a new genus of mammal in Indonesian Papua, named Tous, a gliding possum previously thought extinct. This discovery, confirmed with input from Indigenous knowledge, ...

The colugo is a nocturnal mammal that moves through Southeast Asian forests by gliding rather than flying. A large membrane of skin stretches between its limbs, allowing it to leap from trees and ...

Hawaiʻi's role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished ...

A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seeing sea lions in the wild is an unforgettable experience. Whether they are stretched out across rocky shorelines, barking ...

A metaphor for terror and beauty in classic literature, the tiger became a symbol of sorrow when it recently emerged that 72 ...