A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

A neurological disease spread by rats and other animals may have become established in San Diego County.

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still alive in New Guinea-discovered through a combination of Indigenous knowledge, ...

Residents, gardeners should take precautions to protect against deadly disease transmitted by snails, slugs, and animals that ingest them ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Weighing less than one pound, the little pygmy possum (Cercartetus ...

It wasn’t another strange bill that somebody introduced. Or an argument that happened between two irritated politicians. Or even some new salacious scandal that made tongues wag.

A tiny, threatened marsupial not known to have inhabited South Australia's Yorke Peninsula may exist as a relict population and still be clinging to survival, according to new research that has ...

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.

A Brisbane concrete pourer has been warned after footage circulated of him deliberately shaking a native ringtail possum off a pouring boom to fall about 30 metres to the ground. The footage, posted ...

STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Two animals are in recovery after they were rescued from a deadly house fire last week. Two opossums lived under the Cherry Street house. 28/22 News met with ...

Experienced hunters are sometimes dismissive of the whole idea of studying deer pellets, as though paying attention to the sign was something that’s valuable only to novices. Don’t believe (the lack ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...