Two marsupials thought extinct for 7,000 years found alive - and an iNaturalist user helped prove it.

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 ...

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

Woylies are small marsupials native to Australia. These rabbit-sized rat kangaroos are critically endangered and have disappeared from much of their historical range in mainland Australia.

Two marsupials previously known only from fossils and thought to have vanished 6,000 years ago have been confirmed alive in the rainforests of Indonesia's Vogelkop Peninsula.

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune. Rather, it’s an enigmatic and tiny mammal ...

While kangaroos and koalas are Australia's most famous wildlife, a lesser-known species has been gaining attention for all the right reasons. Quokkas are small marsupials, and a new population was ...

The marsupial mole, an elusive creature that swims through the sands of remote Australian deserts, seems to have suffered an abrupt population crash about 70,000 years ago, possibly due to climate ...