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10 animals believed extinct that were found alive!

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

Two Marsupials Thought to Be Extinct for 6,000 Years Discovered Alive in Remote Rainforest

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

2 'Lazarus' animals thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years found alive in New Guinea

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Scientists thought these marsupials went extinct 6,000 years ago. They just found the animals alive

Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, which lies north of Australia. One is the pygmy long-fingered ...

So, they are alive! Two “extinct” marsupials thought lost for 6,000 years found alive in New Guinea

Scientists have rediscovered two marsupial species in New Guinea that were believed to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago. The ...
New Scientist

Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive

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 ...

Museum of Natural Sciences opens interactive animal defense exhibit

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences launches a new exhibit featuring the defense strategies from animals around the globe.
Midland Daily News

No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kevin Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (THE CONVERSATION) We humans ...