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We Thought These Marsupials Had Been Extinct for 6,000 years... but These Two Forgotten Species Reappear From the Past in New Guinea.

In the dense forests of the Vogelkop Peninsula, in Indonesian Papua, biodiversity still holds large surprises. Two marsupials supposedly extinct, have been rediscovered in New Guinea, reminding that some species escape the radars of science for millennia. Their reappearance revived the debate about the protection of these isolated and unknown ecosystems. A pygmy possum with disproportionate fingers found after 6,000 years The first survivor has …
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In the dense forests of the Vogelkop Peninsula, in Indonesian Papua, biodiversity still holds large surprises. Two marsupials supposedly extinct, have been rediscovered in New Guinea, reminding that some species escape the radars of science for millennia. Their reappearance revived the debate about the protection of these isolated and unknown ecosystems. A pygmy possum with disproportionate fingers found after 6,000 years The first survivor has …

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news in on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
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