Australia has plenty of cute animals that get attention. Koalas, kangaroos and quokkas are talked about all the time, but there's a new creature that deserves the limelight. That would be the ...

Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% between 1999 and 2010 Getty A small marsupial species has been saved from ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservation organization Aussie Ark announced the newest member of its family on January 21 – an orphaned Rufous Bettong joey ...

Conservation groups, university researchers and government departments are banding together to save one of Australia's smallest endangered marsupials in the northern part of the Great Dividing Range.

Canberra's Mulligans Flat Sanctuary is quickly establishing itself as a surprise tourist attraction thanks to its cute and endangered marsupial residents — the eastern bettongs. Today, to mark ...

Australian scientists studying the reliability of species distribution models for revealing the response of animals to climate change have focused their research on the endangered marsupial, the ...

Australia’s tiny jumpers, known as bettongs, are in trouble; once exterminated as agricultural pests they are threatened by habitat loss and introduced predators such as foxes and cats. Scientists ...

Project to reintroduce critically endangered marsupial in South Australia, involving lures with nut spread, has surpassed expectations The Australian bush was once full of rabbit-size marsupials ...