To any celebs who’d like some tips on how to avoid the paparazzi, you might want to speak to the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider. Turns out these two critters are so good at ...

Comedian Melanie Bracewell explains the unlikely connection between the US singer and New Zealand mammal.

A tiny possum with one extra-long finger on each hand is one of two species thought to have been extinct that have been discovered in West Papua, in what’s been called an “exceptional” scientific ...

Christopher Jackson, of Southampton was sentenced on Friday at the Old Bailey over the fatal crash. West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker was stranded in Dubai for five days due to the war in Iran.

I knew we’d given the Kiwis possums and lorikeets, but didn’t have a clue about our generosity in giving them wallabies and magpies.

Workers at a Brisbane concreting company have received death threats since video of one of its workers shaking a possum off a 30-metre concrete boom pump went public, its managing director claimed.

On Presidents’ Day, chef and author Bennett Rea teaches us how to eat like a president, from former President Barack Obama’s crustless coconut pie to former President Richard Nixon’s ham mousse. And, ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

During my time as a learning support math teacher, I always had a daily word problem on my board for students to work on when they first walked into my classroom. To be completely honest, this ...

Sand Mountain Sam, a possum, will predict an early spring or six more weeks of winter on February 2. The Possum Day event will feature a convoy and bluegrass entertainment. Opossums are North ...

Extreme heat is forcing Western Australia’s critically endangered western ringtail possum (Ngwayir) to cut back on vital activity and feeding, new research shows. The study, a collaboration between ...