US EditionTwo Marsupials Believed to Have Been Extinct for 6,000 Years Found Alive
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The indigenous peoples of Papua, Indonesia, helped scientists find two animals that were thought to have disappeared thousands of years ago: a parent of Australia's great glider and an opossum the size of a palm with a strange and elongated finger. A pygmy opossum with long fingers Two species of marsupial [...]
In the tropical forests of New Guinea, biodiversity still holds great surprises. Two marsupials have just returned among the living, after having been considered extinct for millennia. Their existence calls into question what one thought was known about the fauna of this region. 6 000-year-old fossils, and yet living animals Until 2026, the long-fingered pygmy phalanger (Dactylonax kambuayai) and the ringed-tail glider (All ayamaruensis) were kn…
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