Last year, Vivien Deal-Sosa was studying state symbols with her fourth grade class in Chesterfield, New Hampshire when she had an idea: why not make the Virginia opossum, North America’s only native ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There is only one kind of marsupial found north of Mexico — and it bears Virginia’s namesake. The Virginia opossum is the full name of the fuzzy little creature many drivers see ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - Miami’s Pelican Harbor Seabird Station celebrated a major rescue milestone, but their furry little arrival is no ordinary patient. He isn’t even a bird. The nonprofit wildlife hospital ...

Roanoke – The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center has welcomed a new ambassador opossum, and it needs a name. The male opossum suffers from metabolic bone disease due to being kept as an illegal pet ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Great Plains Nature Center Director Amanda Alessi brought in Peanut, a Virginia opossum, to KSN’s Wild Side Tuesday afternoon. Opossums are the only marsupial in North America. ...

Lions, tigers and bears — oh-possum! The Smithsonian National Zoo welcomed a Virginia opossum named Basil to the Small Mammal House earlier this summer. Basil was previously at local wildlife ...

Although many wild mammals tend to lead secretive lives and are rarely seen, nature always provides exceptions! There are several species which have learned to live quite successfully around humans ...

CHARLES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — About a month ago, Chickahominy Wildlife admitted an opossum with extensive injuries into the Wildlife Center of Virginia. The opossum suffered two fractures in her ...