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. Last week, ecologists ...

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 ...

Just when we thought it couldn’t get much more adorable than the common spotted cuscus, along comes the western pygmy possum (Cercartetus concinnus) to blow everything we thought we knew about cute ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums ... species [ever on Kangaroo Island],” Hodgens told ABC News Australia. “So certainly not very common and, obviously, the summer ...

said mountain pygmy possums were unique and cute to boot. "They're the only small mammal that actually hibernates under the snow in Australia, which is quite special," she said. "They're alpine ...

He opened the lid of a nest box for western pygmy possums at the Monjebup Nature Reserve, which his organization manages in southwestern Australia. There, among the leaves, he found not just a ...

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 ...

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