Full grown, a pygmy possum ranges from between an inch and a half long to five ... Pygmy possums have large eyes, long ears, and curling, prehensile tails they use to climb and hols onto tree branches ...

Leaving leaf litter on lawns can benefit overwintering insects, a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert said.

The most Canadian animal? It's not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the ...

A video shared on social media shows the snake hanging from a tree while holding onto a possum. Instagram user Stuart McKenzie posted the clip along with a detailed description of the incident. “This ...

I remember night after night being woken by the sound of my Jack Russell barking furiously at a possum up the old oak tree outside my bedroom window and how there would be no let-up until she had ...

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it ...

The most Canadian animal? It’s not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the country, the loon that gave the one-dollar coin its nickname or even the ...

The tree of life for mammals in Canada is “very weird,” Mooers notes, because it includes the country’s only marsupial, the Virginia opossum. The opossum pushes the mammal family tree back ...