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.

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.