Analysis of Riversleigh fossils has revealed fascinating new facts about a tiny possum's ancestors. Scientists have long known that the miniature feather-tailed possums in Australia and the island of ...

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 ...

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Researchers say mapping the genetic code of the brushtail possum will benefit those working to both conserve and control the animal. In a five-year long study, just published in Nature Communications, ...

Trail cameras monitoring “feral” cats at Bowra Sanctuary recorded the park’s first sighting of a brushtail possum in a decade, photos show. Photo from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy Scientists in ...

HOUSTON — Some mosquitoes buzzing around parts of Australia could be ferrying dangerous cargo from possums to people: flesh-eating bacteria. Mycobacterium ulcerans is the microbe behind Buruli ulcer, ...

From time to time, I’m contacted by people who have a favourite garden tree that seems suddenly to be in serious decline and lacking healthy foliage. Often the decline has been occurring over many ...