In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Reviewing those rare encounters, marine scientist Mark C. Benfield at Louisiana State University (LSU) connected scattered sightings and documented the fish alive in its natural depth range. Footage ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Scientists didn't just find a "living fossil" in West Papua—they found two. In remote rainforests of New Guinea's West Papua ...

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.

A snake in southwest Indonesia has shattered the Guinness World Record for the longest serpent ever spotted in the wild.

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.

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