Sugar gliders, small palm-sized marsupials with flaps on their arms similar to flying squirrels, are considered “exotic pets,” but you may not know much else about them. Last week, the MSPCA took in a ...

Sugar gliders, small marsupials that in some places are kept as pets, have the ability to glide through the air thanks to a membrane connecting their forelegs to their hindlegs. The membrane, known as ...

Forget fluffy puppies and purring kittens; some people have a fondness for the truly peculiar when it comes to their animal ...

Sometimes it’s the smallest things that ruin your day. For the passengers of a flight between the eastern Chinese cities of Shanghai and Jinan, it was a miniature pet possum. The tiny sugar glider – a ...

A parachute-like skin membrane, the patagium, evolved independently in several marsupial species. Genomic analysis suggests that this trait came about through different changes to the regulation of ...