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 woman said she had "no idea" how the animal had got into her house Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work ...

“My husband’s family loves hearing all my crazy stories about different rescues, and they were all just so delighted to see me in action," she told The Dodo Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

reporting from BRASSTOWN, N.C. — At midnight every New Year’s Eve, Clay Logan likes to lower a live opossum in a box to the cheers of a couple thousand spectators as they count down the last 10 ...

TASMANIA, Australia -- If you have a fear of spiders, a pair of photos going viral probably won't help with that: They appear to show a massive spider eating a possum. Justine Latton's husband, Adam, ...

An orangutan at a zoo in Australia found an unwanted visitor in its treehouse. The ape’s solution? To quite literally throw the visitor out. A video posted on Reddit by user @j___---h on Sept. 9 ...

Brasstown, known as the Possum Capital of the South, for years hosted the annual Possum Drop in which a live possum in a Plexiglas cage was lowered to celebrate the coming of the New Year. ERIK S.

This is the last thing anyone would want to walk in on in their ski lodge. A man staying at a lodge in Tasmania, Australia, witnessed a horrifying scene: a large huntsman spider eating what appears to ...