The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say ...

A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

Scientists just found evidence of a rare tiny marsupial hiding out in a completely unexpected place. New evidence of the world’s smallest possum has emerged hundreds of kilometers from where it’s ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.

The striped possum is a tiny, curious creature that spends its nights hunting for bugs and grubs in Australia and New Guinea's dense rainforests. Deep in the rainforests and eucalyptus woodlands of ...

Trail cameras monitoring “feral” cats at Bowra Sanctuary recorded the park’s first sighting of a brushtail possum in a decade, photos show. Photo from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy Scientists in ...

Oscar never pictured himself in this predicament. The kitty from Australia was minding his own business on Tuesday when a tiny ringtail possum put his arms around him — and wouldn’t let go. According ...

Possums – like other inhabitants of the Wet Tropics rainforest in Queensland, Australia – have evolved to live in relatively cool conditions, so they are in a dangerous predicament as global warming ...

They’re poison in Aotearoa but protected in Australia – and in inner-city Sydney, I’m grateful for any encounter with wildlife ...