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.

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 ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums, are tiny tree-dwelling marsupials that might be mistaken for rodents. The large-eared, long-tailed critters grow no longer than 5 to 6 ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums, are tiny tree-dwelling marsupials that might be mistaken for rodents. The large-eared, long-tailed critters grow no longer than 5 to 6 ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums, are tiny tree-dwelling marsupials that might be mistaken for rodents. The large-eared, long-tailed critters grow no longer than 5 to 6 ...

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.

A nature refuge in Sydney’s Northern Beaches welcomed a tiny, locally-extinct eastern pygmy possum on April 5, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy said. Wally, the newest resident of the North ...

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 ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums, are tiny tree-dwelling marsupials that might be mistaken for rodents. The large-eared, long-tailed critters grow no longer than 5 to 6 ...