The bandicoot was extinct in the wild in 1991, but the marsupial has now been “bred for survival” and will be released across ...

Sometimes we get nice things — and marsupials get a miraculous, genetically engineered resurrection. Bandicoots, a group of ...

A ONCE-EXTINCT marsupial has been released in Australia after being bred for survival. The eastern barred bandicoot was ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen Arman Muharmansyah/Australian Museum Two marsupials ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still alive in New Guinea—discovered through a combination of Indigenous knowledge, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi’s role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago. Scientists from the Bishop Museum and ...

Researchers credit fossils, photos, and Indigenous knowledge for the breakthrough discoveries Two marsupial species scientists believed had vanished more than 6,000 years ago have been discovered ...

Two marsupial species scientists believed had vanished more than 6,000 years ago have been discovered alive in the remote rainforests of Western New Guinea. The discovery was detailed in studies ...