The sugar glider was eventually captured and removed from the plane, police said. Passengers were allowed back on the plane, which arrived in Jinan 62 minutes behind schedule.

An amazing feature of the flying squirrel is its ability to glide over long distances. They do not truly fly like birds or bats. Their ability to glide comes from a loose flap of skin attached ...

The Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps), sometimes called the Flying Sugar, is a small gliding possum native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and ...

A sugar glider is a tree-dwelling, tropical marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea and related not too distantly to our marsupial opossums. Meet Marge, a European hedgehog ...

Alarming, sure, but my dramatic acquaintance sang the praises of the 10-inch marsupial: Lola, who resembled a flying squirrel, was calm and cuddly — “more loving than a dog” even.

The sugar glider is an icon of the Australian bush. But discovering it’s actually three distinct species has big consequences for its conservation.