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 ...

The MSPCA is looking for a home for dozens of tiny marsupials that can glide through the air like flying squirrels. Forty-four sugar gliders — 27 males and 17 females — were surrendered to the MSPCA ...

BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — An animal welfare group in Massachusetts is finding new homes for more than 40 sugar gliders, a type of marsupial, after they quickly started to reproduce and overwhelmed their ...

To better understand patagium evolution, the team focused on marsupials. That is because the ability to glide has developed repeatedly, using similar anatomical changes, in closely related marsupials ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Gwen Hovde is glad she and her sugar gliders live in Minneapolis. With a half-dozen of the mini marsupials as pets, she would be a sugar glider scofflaw under a new ordinance approved ...

After an hour repelling mosquitoes in thick evening humidity, PhD candidate Alyson Stobo-Wilson shone her torch into a eucalyptus tree and finally found a pair of glowing red eyes. "He just jumped ...

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 ...