Opossums might not be everyone's favorite animal. Some mistake them for huge rats due to their distinctive features, such as their sharp-pointed muzzle, teeth, and long, thick rat-like tail. However, ...

Mary Schmidt discusses opossum facts, and Carol Reese talks about groundcovers. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Mary Schmidt of Lichterman Nature Center discusses some facts ...

They won’t eat each other, and the family of marsupials does not seem to mind that the lizard is using them for warmth. By Anthony Ham When Alex Hams, a land conservation manager at Bush Heritage ...

The Virginia opossum is truly unique in many ways and as North America’s only marsupial, definitely one of a kind. I believe this much-maligned mammal to be among the most misunderstood and ...

One of the unique and most misunderstood animals roaming through Pennsylvania is the opossum. With little hair on its head, tail and toes, this creature has conjured up a variety of beliefs and ...

Did you know that the American opossum is the only marsupial living in the United States? Opossums are part of the Didelphidae family and have super interesting facts about them. Another fact about ...

Craig Nitschke received funding for this research from the Australian Research Council and industry partners (the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning, and VicForests) as ...

Just to be clear, female opossums do not give birth by sneezing babies into their pouch from their nostrils, as was once widely believed. If anything, it’s more bizarre than that. Ah, the poor ...

Most people would not roll out the red carpet for an opossum. But one Eagle Scout candidate has not only embraced Shelby Township’s Burgess-Shadbush Center’s opossum but has created a state-of-the-art ...

A parasite known only to be hosted in North America by the Virginia opossum is infecting sea otters along the West Coast. A study from the University of California, Davis, elucidates the sometimes ...

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