True possums are found only in Australia and some of the islands of Oceania. They are quite different to the North American opossum. Possums live in trees hollows and logs in their natural habitat, which is bushland, wet sclerophyll forest and tall eucalypt forest, and temperate rainforest.
Dissect definition, to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like. See more.
Dissection (from Latin dissecare to cut to pieces; also called anatomization, from Greek anatomia, from ana- up and temnein to cut) is the process of disassembling and observing something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to discerning the functions and relationships of its components.