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 ...

Just when we thought it couldn’t get much more adorable than the common spotted cuscus, along comes the western pygmy possum (Cercartetus concinnus) to blow everything we thought we knew about cute ...

Pygmy possums, weighing approximately a third of an ounce, can be found in Tasmania and sometimes mainland South Australia and Victoria, in addition to Kangaroo Island. Last week, ecologists ...

The Australian mountain pygmy possum is rare in its current habitat, but its ancestors lived elsewhere. Could moving some possums save them all? In spring, keepers at a zoo in Australia warm up ...

Conservationists have made a very tiny, but highly heartening discovery on a South Australian island that was ravaged by bushfires last summer — a lone, surviving pygmy possum. The miniature ...

Fair warning: If you’re deathly afraid of spiders, or are sensitive to yucky stuff, you should probably skip this story. Or maybe put a hand over the screen when we get to the photos. OK?

Small rock-like biscuits — hundreds of which were moulded and baked by eager students — have helped bring a critically-endangered Aussie species bank from the brink. The “interesting” idea came about ...

The mountain pygmy possum of Australia, the aye-aye of Madagascar and Leadbeater’s possum of Australia are the top three mammals that we should try to save, according to an improved method for ...

There are fewer than 2,000 endangered mountain pygmy-possums left in the wild. BLUE MOUNTAINS, Australia: Fossils formed more than 20 million years ago are helping to save some of Australia’s ...

He opened the lid of a nest box for western pygmy possums at the Monjebup Nature Reserve, which his organization manages in southwestern Australia. There, among the leaves, he found not just a ...