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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Australian mountain pygmy possum is rare in its current habitat, but its ancestors lived elsewhere. Could moving some possums save them all? In spring, keepers at a zoo in Australia warm up ...

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 ...

Conservationists have made a very tiny, but highly heartening discovery on a South Australian island that was ravaged by bushfires last summer — a lone, surviving pygmy possum. The miniature ...

Scientists working to save Australia's critically endangered mountain pygmy possum are getting a helping hand from across the globe, with the Prague Zoo donating $190,000 towards a new captive ...

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 ...