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 ...

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New evidence of the world’s smallest possum has emerged hundreds of kilometers from where it’s known to occur in southern Australia — a finding that potentially extends the range of this locally ...

Imagine an animal that weighs about as much as a golf ball, sleeps for seven months at a time beneath a blanket of snow and has somehow survived ice ages, mass extinctions and continental drift.