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.
anatomy (n.) late 14c., study or knowledge of the structure and function of the human body (learned by dissection); c. 1400, anatomical structure, from Old French anatomie and directly from Late Latin anatomia, from late Greek anatomia for classical anatome dissection, literally a cutting up, from ana up (see ana-) + temnein to cut (from PIE root *tem-to cut).