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, ...

Whether celebrated as Michigan's only marsupial or reviled as backyard pests, opossums make an impression. Famous for playing dead, they are a common sight rooting around trash cans or sheltering in ...

The poor opossum really does deserve our pity. This critter, officially known as the Virginia opossum, has very little going for it other than just about everyone would agree that it is ugly. And and ...

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 ...

OKALOOSA ISLAND — An opossum that snuck into a liquor store and apparently helped itself to a few drinks the day after Thanksgiving was brought in to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge for treatment ...

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Whenever people say they don’t like opossums or they want to get rid of them, what they’re unknowingly saying is that they’d rather have more ticks around. An opossum’s abundant consumption of ticks ...

Researchers are investigating the ongoing northward range expansion of the common Virginia opossum. The headline reads like something from the satirical newspaper The Onion: "Grand Forks opossum slain ...

Mardi Gras 2024 seems like a long time ago. But the saga of the opossum named Saffron, who was confiscated by state authorities in the French Quarter during Carnival, continues with no conclusion in ...

Finding an opossum on your deck can catch you off guard, but there’s usually no need to panic. Opossums are shy, gentle ...

DOW — A blind Virginia opossum is the newest patient at the TreeHouse Wildlife Center in rural Dow. According to Samuel White, an animal rehabber at TreeHouse, a person delivering packages in Granite ...