Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Scientists announced on March 5, 2026, that they have identified an entirely new genus of mammal called Tous, a group of ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Scientists have identified a new genus of mammal in Indonesian Papua, named Tous, a gliding possum previously thought extinct. This discovery, confirmed with input from Indigenous knowledge, ...