Opossums get a bad reputation. They’re often the unlovable pests of the garden and an unwelcome visitor to the trash can. But ...

"They can be incredibly sweet and semi good pets, but take it from me..." ...

Baby Opossums Get Left Behind More Often Than People Think, and There's a Wild Reason Why ...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Brazil has found that opossums are more social in their dens than thought. In their paper published in The Royal Society ...

"When they're that young they'll latch onto anything furry that's bigger than them." ...

Opossums, which include the roughly 100 species in the order Didelphimorphia, are some of the most misunderstood animals in the Americas. They’re often thought of as dimwitted, dirty creatures whose ...

"Whether a patient weighs less than a golf ball or has a wingspan wider than your arms, the right food helps provide the ...

Florida's opossums could soon become weaponized against prolific and invasive Burmese pythons by tracking them.

To mitigate the increasingly out-of-control rat epidemic in Brooklyn, city officials let opossums loose in public parks and underneath the Coney Island boardwalk, so that the opossums could maim, eat, ...

My crippling fear of opossums goes back to around the third grade. One late summer night, one of those rat-faced marsupials was “playing possum” under my family’s backyard rosebush, slumped in a ...

Los Angeles is in the midst of a typhus outbreak, but researchers say the usual suspects—cats and rats—aren’t to blame. Instead, they believe the opossum, the marsupial becoming a growing nuisance in ...