A weimang (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus), or golden-mantled tree kangaroo, pictured in Lumi, Papua New Guinea. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay. If gliders do still exist in the Torricellis, it’s ...

Millions of years ago, as the Indo-Australian plate pushed into the Pacific plate, a volcanic arc of islands began to emerge near the modern-day island of New Guinea that would one day form the ...

Musky rat-kangaroos look a bit like a potoroo – but they have a unique trait not shared with any other roos. Roughly 40,000 years ago, the short-faced cousins of modern kangaroos died out. The ...

Musky rat-kangaroos look a bit like a potoroo – but they have a unique trait not shared with any other roos. Roughly 40,000 years ago, the short-faced cousins of modern kangaroos died out. The ...