Tiny New Kangaroo: Spectacular Find

An expedition into the mountains of Papua New Guinea has revealed what may be the world’s smallest species of kangaroo. A research team that ventured into the Foja Mountains in 2008 have this week released their findings of a number of species new to science, including a new dwarf wallaby, Dorcopsulus. The wallaby inhabits the floor of the montane forests, and has been called beautiful and gentle by expeditioner Dr Kristofer Helgen, a zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution of Washington DC