Pygmy-possums are arguably Australia’s most adorable marsupials, with their curly tails and soft-looking bellies. Here’s your chance to get to know them better. Australia is home to five species of ...

March 30 (UPI) --An Australian scuba instructor teamed up with reserve rangers to rescue a possum spotted clinging to a buoy near a pier. The Whitecliffs Foreshore Reserve said in an Instagram post ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last month an orphaned possum was handed in to a wildlife rescue service in Melbourne. Born with a “genetic mutation”, its bright colour scheme has ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent's first victim of ...

When people think of the animals of Australia, they’re quick to cite dangerous reptiles, like the giant saltwater crocodiles or the many extremely venomous species of snake. Then there are the deadly ...

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 ...

A tiny mammal, smaller than an adult human thumb, has been found on the island that was ravaged by the 2019-20 bushfires in southern Australian – Kangaroo Island, according to the New York Post.

The rescue team believes the possum was nesting on a boat and panicked when it started sailing to sea, so the animal jumped into the water and then took hold of a buoy An astounded scuba diver rescued ...