If you enjoy looking at cute sloth pictures, you’ll go wild over this photo of a mountain possum caught taking a snack break while munching on an apple in a park in Queensland, Australia ...

Hiding is important during the day, considering that the indigenous people of New Guinea often hunt these cute critters for their black and white pelts. They’re also a treat for snakes in the ...

THE STRIPED POSSUM (Dactylopsila trivirgata) lives in a pocket of Australia, right up in the Cape York Peninsula, where it hides out in the rainforests and eucalypt woodlands, nestled on a bed of ...

Possums can be the subject of cute fascination, morbid curiosity (quite literally, these creatures play dead as a defense mechanism) or a nuisance to homeowners. Perhaps your knowledge of possums ...

HOUSTON — Some mosquitoes buzzing around parts of Australia could be ferrying dangerous cargo from possums to people: flesh-eating bacteria. Mycobacterium ulcerans is the microbe behind Buruli ...

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 ...

The endangered mountain pygmy possum seems to be making a comeback after a drought and wildfires nearly wiped out the population. According to ABC News, the mountain pygmy possum has fought off ...

For decades, researchers have sought proof this critically endangered possum existed in New South Wales. Now it’s arrived by sheer chance ...

Stock image of a brushtail possum. Feared to be locally extinct in parts of Western Australia, this marsupial delighted researchers after popping up on a wildlife camera.