Back in 1848, some bright spark had a 'good' idea. Let's import common brush-tailed possums from Australia and fur-farm them in New Zealand, they thought. They followed up on that idea with action ...

Using a $9 dog treat toy, University of Canterbury (UC) Master's student Emma Godfrey has conducted research showing, for the first time, that common brushtail possums can learn from their peers.

Brush-tailed possums were introduced from Australia in 1837. Their numbers have since risen to around 75 million and they eat their way through everything from saplings to birds’ eggs.

The brush-tailed possum's making a long-overdue comeback in the Flinders Ranges. His reemergence - along with that of his native cousin, the Western Quoll, is part of one of the most ambitious ...

Brush-tailed possums are territorial, and stay in the same small area their whole lives; Residents held grave concerns that the large brush-tail possum, known as Russell Rustle, ...

From card: "Made of the split open skins with head and extremities cut off, so each in rectangular form, 22 1/4 skins of the brush tailed opossum [sic, should be possum] (trichosurus vulpecula) and ...

Dozens of possums are making a new home in Central Australia after being flown hundreds of kilometres from Kangaroo Island, as ecologists seek to re-establish a brushtail population in the Red Centre.