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

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

The two marsupials were found living in the remote rainforests on the Vogelkop Peninsula of New Guinea.

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...

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

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

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In Australia, there's a little critter known as the marsupial mole. It has lush, golden fur. It is blind. It has flipper-like front feet so it can swim through desert sands. And it is not easy to find ...

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole. DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole The marsupial mole, an elusive creature ...