Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists ...

A possum and a glider long thought extinct have been rediscovered in New Guinea by a group including Australian mammalogist ...

Scientists didn't just find a "living fossil" in West Papua—they found two. In remote rainforests of New Guinea's West Papua ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been ...

For most of the past 20 years, a live animal has been used in a small North Carolina town's annual New Year's Eve Possum Drop. But this year, following challenges from People for the Ethical Treatment ...

If there were ever a misunderstood animal, it is the opossum. They’re not cute. They hang around our garbage and stress out our dogs late at night when they’re creeping along the fence or around the ...

Sara Fulton removed an opossum from Temkin's Bar in Greenpoint, after the marsupial accidentally ran into the crowded establishment Sara Fulton is the superhero New York City needs right now. While ...

They’re poison in Aotearoa but protected in Australia – and in inner-city Sydney, I’m grateful for any encounter with wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, much like the toddler and pug whose pure joy over a simple flashlight lifted people’s spirits around the world, little Ruth ...

Someone shot a possum in the head in Newington and animal control is looking for information on whoever is responsible. Newington Animal Control posted on Facebook that they found the possum on Dix ...