University of WA researchers have discovered the tiny western pygmy possum in Albany’s Torndirrup National Park. Professor Stephen Hopper, from UWA Albany’s Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence of western pygmy possums interacting with native flowers, providing an eDNA study to simultaneously detect mammal, insect and bird DNA on flowers. Curtin ...

A tiny mammal, smaller than an adult human thumb, has been found on the island that was ravaged by the 2019-20 bushfires in southern Australian – Kangaroo Island, according to the New York Post.

(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 ...

They won’t eat each other, and the family of marsupials does not seem to mind that the lizard is using them for warmth. By Anthony Ham When Alex Hams, a land conservation manager at Bush Heritage ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --A recent discovery has given scientists hope that the devastating brushfires in Australia in the summer did not completely wipe out a group of the world's smallest possum species.

Landscapes that have escaped fire for decades or centuries tend to harbor vital structures for wildlife, such as tree hollows and large logs. But these "long unburnt" habitats can be eliminated by a ...

Curtin researchers have uncovered new evidence of western pygmy possums interacting with native flowers, providing the first eDNA study to simultaneously detect mammal, insect and bird DNA on flowers.

An Australian conservation group which set up nests for fluffy pygmy possums on a nature reserve was shocked to discover dozens of huge spiders had moved in instead. The photo shared by Bush Heritage ...

Curtin researchers have uncovered new evidence of western pygmy possums interacting with native flowers, providing the first eDNA study to simultaneously detect mammal, insect and bird DNA on flowers.