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 ...

The pygmy possum is considered one of the smallest possums in the world, ... It was feared the species was decimated by the wildfires in December 2019/January 2020 in Australia.

The mountain pygmy possum is so rare that it was known only from fossils until 1966, when skiers on Mount Hotham in Victoria, Australia, found one scampering around the woodpile at their ski lodge.

That’s a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes! A woman named Justine Latton posted this photo in a public Facebook group dedicated to discussing the invertebrates inhabiting ...

Here, a woman shows off the minuscule form of a baby pygmy possum she just rescued from a public bathroom in South Australia. The wee thing is barely the size of her thumbnail.

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 ...

But with or without geckos and spiders, these nest boxes help protect pygmy possums. “Tree hollows have been massively depleted around Australia because of logging, and pygmy possum habitat has ...