Maybe you’ve heard some of the amazing facts about possums. Possums eat garden pests and hundreds of ticks a day. They’re mostly immune to rabies and snake venom, and are practically odorless except ...

Discover the bizarre facts and fiction about the Virginia opossum's incredible symmetrical reproductive system.

Craig Nitschke received funding for this research from the Australian Research Council and industry partners (the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning, and VicForests) as ...

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 ...

They won’t eat each other, and the family of marsupials does not seem to mind that the lizard is using them for warmth. By Anthony Ham When Alex Hams, a land conservation manager at Bush Heritage ...

Protected by a predator-proof fence, two tiny Leadbeater's possums have settled into their new life at the Coranderrk Bushland Nature Conservation Reserve with a big task ahead. Named Mercury (male) ...

Most people would not roll out the red carpet for an opossum. But one Eagle Scout candidate has not only embraced Shelby Township’s Burgess-Shadbush Center’s opossum but has created a state-of-the-art ...