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 ...

The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says ...

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

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 ...

In an exceptional scientific discovery, scientists have found a tiny possum and ring-tailed glider in West Papua after 6,000 years. For decades, the researchers have thought these species to ...

Pygmy possums have been found hundreds of kilometers from where they're known to occur in southern Australia — a finding that potentially extends the range of this locally threatened species.

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