Maybe you’ve heard some of the amazing facts about possums. Possums eat garden pests and hundreds of ticks a day. They’re mostly immune to rabies and snake venom, and are practically odorless except ...

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A photo of a giant spider eating a small possum has gone viral, inducing nightmares all around the world. The huntsman spider, commonly found in Australia and other parts of the world, typically has a ...

The rediscovery in New Guinea of two marsupials thought extinct for thousands of years was linked to the fight to have ...

HOUSTON — Some mosquitoes buzzing around parts of Australia could be ferrying dangerous cargo from possums to people: flesh-eating bacteria. Mycobacterium ulcerans is the microbe behind Buruli ulcer, ...