Oscar never pictured himself in this predicament. The kitty from Australia was minding his own business on Tuesday when a tiny ringtail possum put his arms around him — and wouldn’t let go. According ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent’s first victim of ...

The rescue team believes the possum was nesting on a boat and panicked when it started sailing to sea, so the animal jumped into the water and then took hold of a buoy An astounded scuba diver rescued ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like pleasure and pain act as a "common currency" for decision-making, as we see in ...

A tiny mammal, smaller than an adult human thumb, has been found on the island that was ravaged by the 2019-20 bushfires in southern Australian – Kangaroo Island, according to the New York Post.

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 ...

March 30 (UPI) --An Australian scuba instructor teamed up with reserve rangers to rescue a possum spotted clinging to a buoy near a pier. The Whitecliffs Foreshore Reserve said in an Instagram post ...

That’s a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes! A woman named Justine Latton posted this photo in a public Facebook group dedicated to discussing the invertebrates inhabiting the ...

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