Monkey Business as Mystery Marmoset Found in Doncaster Raid

Monkey business as mystery marmoset found in Doncaster raid

The one-year-old marmoset was an "unexpected passenger" in a car searched in Doncaster, police say.

Ecologists alarmed after invasive fire ants found in ancient Australian rainforest

Ants could have a $2bn per year-impact on Australia’s economy, researchers say

Superfood Fuels Mating Frenzy for Critically Endangered Kakapo

Kakapos, which are reclusive and flightless and can live as long as humans, are found only in New Zealand. They feed on the fruit of the rimu tree.

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea

The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery saysResearchers led by the Australian scientist Tim Flannery have made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: that two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua.The pair are rare examples of “Lazarus taxa” – species that disappeared from f…

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 palm-sized possum with a bizarre, elongated finger