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 ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Dozens of exotic animals that "can make great pets" are up for adoption through the MSPCA-Angell's adoption centers in Jamaica Plain and Methuen. The organization said it has received ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- It didn't take long for dozens of Sugar Gliders surrendered to the MSPCA to find new homes. The organization said just nine days after taking the marsupials in, "every last Sugar ...

Sugar gliders are small nocturnal animals originally from the treetops of Australia and New Guinea. Their diet in the wild includes a combination of sweets from the forest, small animals, and insects.

Two New England animal shelters are seeking experienced pet owners after a record-breaking number of sugar gliders were surrendered to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this evolutionary advice to heart. According to our newly published paper in Science ...

BOSTON (WJAR) - A record-breaking number of sugar gliders has been surrendered to an animal shelter in Massachusetts. Now, 44 of them are in need a loving home. “It’s by far the largest ever surrender ...

The baby sugar glider is a tiny and adorable creature with many interesting traits. Did you know they are the size of a grain of rice at birth or that they grow extremely quickly? How about that ...

Humans aren't the only creatures that prefer to use one hand over the other. Now, a new study finds that marsupials that run about on all fours have paw preferences, too. In particular, sugar gliders ...

Sugar glider climbing in tree leaves. All mammals that inhabit the earth today descended from one common ancestor called the Morganucodon—a tiny shrewlike creature that lived alongside the dinosaurs ...

SAGINAW TWP, MI — Walk into Custom Creatures, Saginaw Township’s new exotic pet store, and you’ll be greeted by the shop’s dome-shelled mascot Tara. That is, if the surprisingly swift sulcata tortoise ...