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 ...

Members of the pygmy possum family, called Burramyidae, are found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea, and Tasmania has the honour of hosting the smallest possum in the world – the ...

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 ...

When Aussies look up into the sky at the end of winter, there will be a noticeable difference from what we saw a decade ago.

Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) fly up 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to take shelter in the handful of high-altitude caves that ...

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? About ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.