This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The feathertail glider, aka pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying mouse, or flying phalanger, is the world’s smallest gliding mammal and subsequently the smallest gliding marsupial. They hail from eastern Australia. These diminutive marsupials face the threat of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the logging […]

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