True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

Denisovans were first identified not from a skull or skeleton, but from DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in Siberia. Since then, researchers have confirmed that this extinct ...

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Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists. The ...

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

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis. Zoosystematics and Evolution Zoosystematics and Evolution A team of researchers set ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

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Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis. Zoosystematics and Evolution Zoosystematics and Evolution A team of scientists went ...

In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret River by Lindsay Hatcher, an avid caver. There was something a bit odd about ...