The endangered mountain pygmy possum seems to be making a comeback after a drought and wildfires nearly wiped out the ...

Less than a foot away, a huntsman spider, about the size of an adult’s hand, was perched near the top of the door — and a dead pygmy possum was dangling from its gleaming black fangs.

The Australian mountain pygmy possum is rare in its current habitat, but its ancestors lived elsewhere. Could moving some possums save them all? In spring, keepers at a zoo in Australia warm up ...

Speaking on the astounding discovery of this one single pygmy possum, ecologist Pat Hodgens told The Guardian, “This capture is the first documented record of the species surviving post-fire.” ...

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 ...

This pygmy possum has a body about 8 cm long with a tail around the same size. Thought it might be hard to believe, the Western Pygmy Possum is one of the largest pygmy possums in the world.

A cousin of the mountain pygmy possum, this western variety is just as cute. Just when we thought it couldn’t get much more adorable than the common spotted cuscus, along comes the western pygmy ...

The unlucky pygmy possum was just in the wrong place at the really wrong time. The Tasmanian pygmy possum (Cercartetus lepidus), also known as the little pygmy possum, is the world's smallest possum.

He opened the lid of a nest box for western pygmy possums at the Monjebup Nature Reserve, which his organization manages in southwestern Australia. There, among the leaves, he found not just a ...