A tiny, threatened marsupial not known to have inhabited South Australia's Yorke Peninsula may exist as a relict population and still be clinging to survival, according to new research that has ...

The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its 2,000 remaining individuals are holding on. In 1895, deep within the limestone ...

The little pygmy possum is only currently known to exist in Tasmania, parts of the states of Victoria and South Australia, and on Kangaroo Island. However, that may be changing.

(NBC) – A tiny sign of life on Australia’s bushfire devastated Kangaroo Island has biologists hopeful about the future. Make that a very small sign of life. These two minuscule pygmy possums, and ...

The number of endangered pygmy possums, Australia's only hibernating marsupial, is in rapid decline. At Charlotte Pass and Blue Cow in NSW, pygmy possum numbers have almost halved over the past 20 ...