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  "path": "/ecology/animals-ecology/marsupials-lazarus-6000-years-thought-extinct/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-13T16:55:26.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.zmescience.com",
  "tags": [
    "Animals",
    "News",
    "biodiversity",
    "conservation",
    "Dactylonax kambuayai",
    "extinction",
    "Lazarus species",
    "marsupials",
    "new guinea",
    "paleontology",
    "possums",
    "pygmy long-fingered possum",
    "rainforest",
    "taxonomy",
    "Tous ayamaruensis",
    "Vogelkop Peninsula",
    "western New Guinea"
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  "textContent": "Scientists found two marsupials thought extinct for 6,000 years.",
  "title": "Two New Marsupials Discovered in New Guinea Were Thought to Have Been Extinct for 6,000 Years"
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