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

Fly above the ancient, immense beauty of the Daintree Rainforest, Australia, with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the world's oldest living tropical rainforest, gliding over its dense, unbroken ...

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 ...

New analysis of ancient parrot DNA has revealed that vibrant Amazonian parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru centuries before the Inca Empire, highlighting a sophisticated ...

Walk through a tropical rainforest, and you quickly notice a pattern in the fruits growing around you. Most are red, orange, ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

The pygmy long-fingered possum is one of two mammal species that scientists found in the remote jungle in West Papa, both of ...

Three striking new species of rock-dwelling monitor lizards have been formally described from the savannas of northeastern Queensland, revealing a previously unrecognized evolutionary lineage. The ...

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 first camera survey ever conducted on Truwana/Cape Barren Island off Tasmania has recorded two rarely seen animals—white-footed dunnarts and blonde echidnas. A vulnerable shorebird—the Latham's ...

Recent crocodile sightings in floodwaters in the Northern Territory have prompted widespread concern, particularly in the ...

Conservationists saved the fuzzy creatures in Victoria, Australia. Now, the animals are showing remarkable signs of genetic recovery ...