A Canadian citizen who is wanted for sexually abusing a child in Idaho from 2003 to 2007, is thought to be sailing somewhere around the Pacific, according to the FBI. Federal agents are asking for the ...
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...
Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...
In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...
The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...
Scientists have identified a new genus of mammal in Indonesian Papua, named Tous, a gliding possum previously thought extinct. This discovery, confirmed with input from Indigenous knowledge, ...
The Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia's Southwest Papua province are a marine biodiversity hotspot and a divers' paradise.
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.
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They call themselves “sister-friends.” Now, two celebrated women’s rights activists from different parts of the globe, Gloria ...
Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.