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 ...

About the size of a cat, possums (real name, Opossum, but most of us drop the O) are North America's only marsupial and can be found throughout most of the United States. Though a shy, nocturnal ...

Troubled by pesky possums? Experts share their recommendations on how to best safeguard your gardens from the opportunistic ...

Tiny marsupials endemic to WA's southwest show resilience in the face of disappearing food and shelter, a Perth study suggests. Honey possums (Tarsipes rostratus) are the only flightless animals that ...

You’re drifting off to sleep when, suddenly, there’s a bump and a thump and an unearthly shriek. But never fear, if your home is making these noises you probably don’t have ghosts, but a family of ...

In Australia, a rare golden brushtail possum was spotted limping, but, thanks to a good Samaritan, the animal has been ...

Some of Australia’s rarest animals are vanishing at an alarming rate, with conservationists sounding the alarm as the threat ...

Possums, those beady-eyed backyard scavengers who are willing to eat basically anything, are having an internet moment. Olivia Graves, who runs the Olivia’s O’meme Outlet Facebook page, has spent ...

New research has shown for the first time that Australian marsupials are contaminated with synthetic "forever chemicals," which are linked to significant health impacts on other animals and humans.

Exclusive: With only 33 of Victoria’s lowland population left, the team charged with their recovery says ‘we need to be proactive’ As dusk has fallen each night for the last seven days, Dan Harley and ...

Putting out the call for Dunedin people to do their bit to spot possums across the city during next month’s Spotlight on Possums event are (from left) Predator Free Dunedin communications and ...