{"id":894213,"date":"2026-03-25T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/two-species-of-marsupials-thought-lost-for-6000-years-found-alive-in-new-guinea\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:22:20","slug":"two-species-of-marsupials-thought-lost-for-6000-years-found-alive-in-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/two-species-of-marsupials-thought-lost-for-6000-years-found-alive-in-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Species of Marsupials Thought Lost for 6,000 Years Found Alive in New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature In the remote rainforests of New Guinea\u2019s Vogelkop Peninsula, scientists have spotted two marsupial species &#8212; the pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai) and the ring-tailed glider (Tous ayamaruensis) &#8212; believed to have been lost for roughly 6,000 years.<br \/>\nThe post Two Species of Marsupials Thought Lost for 6,000 Years Found Alive in New Guinea appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/biology\/two-marsupials-new-guinea-14648.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Samatha Block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature In the remote rainforests of New Guinea\u2019s Vogelkop Peninsula, scientists have spotted two marsupial species &#8212; the pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai) and the ring-tailed glider (Tous ayamaruensis) &#8212; believed to have been lost for roughly 6,000 years. The post Two Species of Marsupials Thought Lost for 6,000 Years Found Alive in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":894214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135398,536,22921],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-marsupials","category-science-nature","category-species"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}