They claim the cute little possum – the symbol of Queensland’s Wet Tropics – is already “ecologically extinct’’. Just four adults are known to still be alive in the only place on the planet where they ...

Last December, the Australian lemuroid ringtail possum was widely reported as the first possible extinction casualty of climate change. But last week it rose from the dead with ecologists reporting ...

JUST four white lemuroid ringtail possums have been found in the wild and scientists say the species could soon become the first creature to be wiped out by global warming.

A white lemuroid ringtail possum at night. Image Credit: Mike Trenerry “We’re probably seeing [tropical warming] much more quickly now than we ever did in the past, a hundred to two hundred times ...