What do two animals presumed dead for 6,000 years, a star hiding a century-old secret, a cancer prevention breakthrough hiding in plain sight, and one of the largest armed uprisings in American history have in common? They were all hiding in plain sight the whole time.

In this episode of Gotta Be Kidding Me, host Tammy Coron covers four stories about things that were hiding in the open. Two marsupials, a long-fingered possum and a glider belonging to a genus entirely new to science, were discovered alive in the rainforests of New Guinea, despite being presumed extinct for millennia. The catch? The indigenous Maybrat and Tambrauw peoples who live there already knew they existed. Astronomers may have finally spotted Betelgeuse B, a companion star that researchers suspected for decades but couldn't find because Betelgeuse itse ...