Opossum fact: The Virginia opossum has the distinction of being both the only opossum and the only marsupial native to North America. Colloquially called possums, Virginia opossums should not be ...

These arboreal animals are marsupials, like kangaroos, wallabies, and opossums. But, unlike kangaroos, they spend their lives ...

In the current crisis of global biodiversity loss, the discovery of new species is a welcome addition. But the recent finding that the mountain brushtail possum, an arboreal marsupial mammal of ...

We don’t know anything about that ancestor for certain, but we assume that it was not unlike the earliest known marsupials and placentals: probably a small climbing (arboreal or semiarboreal ...

Kangaroos aren’t the type of animal you expect to see high in a tree. Yet there it is: an arboreal marsupial with the shape of a ‘roo and the coloration of a red panda. Love it. Animals ...

There have long been speculations that the mouse-sized marsupial monito del monte climbs to lofty heights in the trees. Yet, no previous records exist documenting such arboreal habits for this ...

Tree-dwelling wombat relatives. The huge tree-dwelling herbivorous marsupials, known as Nimbadon, weighed about 70kg, making them the largest arboreal (tree dwelling) mammals known from Australia..