Name: Scaly-tailed possum (Wyulda squamicaudata).
Size: The size of a cute furry basketball, they can grow up to 2 kg and have a head body length of up to 40 cm, plus up to 30 cm of tail.
Diet: Primarily fruits, but also partial to seeds, leaves and flowers of rocky gorge plants.
Habitat/range: Sheltered, fire-protected gorges from Victoria River region in far-west Northern Territory through to north-west Kimberley coast.
Conservation status: Vulnerable.
Superpower/fun fact: Would fit right in at Cirque du Soleil with their acrobatic capabilities and scaly, grippy tails!
These secretive adorable weirdos have boss-level hide-and-seek skills, being one of the last medium sized mammals described by European scientists from the East Kimberley in 1919. They were then only recorded in…