During an expedition to the Peruvian Andes in 2018, a team of researchers exploring Abiseo River National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, made an extraordinary discovery: a previously undocumented ...

When Basil the Virginia opossum arrived at the National Zoo over the summer, he had been injured by a predator attack, lost one eye, and was unlikely to survive in the wild due to his injuries. Now, D ...

An intrepid expedition team set off in 2018 to look for a mysterious species of squirrel in the Peruvian Andes. What they found instead was a brand-new species of opossum. “I realized immediately that ...

Tasmanian pygmy possums, also known as little pygmy possums, are tiny tree-dwelling marsupials that might be mistaken for rodents. The large-eared, long-tailed critters grow no longer than 5 to 6 ...

Extreme heat is forcing Western Australia's critically endangered western ringtail possum (Ngwayir) to cut back on vital ...