Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zookeepers had their first glimpse at a dozen adorable mountain pygmy possums born at Victoria’s Healesville Sanctuary in October ...

A dozen critically endangered mountain pygmy possums have been successfully bred at an Australian sanctuary. Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria has welcomed the critters, whose numbers have ...

Trevor Evans has been breeding the endangered mountain pygmy possum to better deal with the effects of climate change. The ...

Trevor Evans peers into a wooden nest box. “Ah, somebody’s awake,” he says with satisfaction as he pulls out a tiny, wriggly scrap of fur with a long tail – a thumb-sized mountain pygmy-possum ...

Australia’s recent bushfires have razed over ten million hectares, and killed at least a billion animals. It’s likely countless more will die in the aftermath, as many species face starvation as the ...

Each year, from September to mid-October, the tiny and very precious mountain pygmy-possums arise from their months of hibernation under the snow and begin feasting on billions of bogong moths that ...

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