The common brushtail possum was introduced to New Zealand for fur farming in the 1800s. Instead of staying controlled, it spread rapidly across the country. With no natural predators, possum ...

Mr. Jody Nobles, the education curator at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo, introduced Jake the possum on Zoo to You! The presentation highlighted the unique ...

According to Australian Geographic, possums are nocturnal and feed on a wide range of plant matter, including eucalyptus. The ...

Here's your look at the Petunia’s Purgatory announcement trailer for the upcoming creepy-cute, idle-farming game that lives ...

For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ecosystems with their adaptability, diverse behaviors, and interactions ...

Trevor Evans peers into a wooden nest box. “Ah, somebody’s awake,” he says with satisfaction as he pulls out a tiny, wriggly scrap of fur with a long tail – a thumb-sized mountain pygmy-possum ...

With their beady eyes, big ears, hairless tails and short, stocky legs, opossums are distinctive marsupials. Despite their odd appearance, these animals have a rich evolutionary history and have ...

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Government and the Victorian Government. He is a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council and a Member of Birds Australia. Darcy Watchorn works ...

Well, it seems that everyone attached to James Gunn’s Superman has been getting a rise in their Hollywood career, as Mikaela Hoover found herself voicing an iconic character in a Netflix show. With ...

The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its 2,000 remaining individuals are holding on. In 1895, deep within the limestone ...

That was the question posed by a political cartoon in the January 10, 1909, issue of the Atlanta Constitution. Inspired by a highly anticipated “possums and taters” banquet that the Atlanta Chamber of ...

When I lived in San Francisco, our house wasn’t too far from Golden Gate Park. As a result, we’d occasionally receive visits from wildlife, mostly wily raccoons. One night, I went into the backyard, ...