WASHINGTON — A new "crazy beast" has been found by researchers in Madagascar. Scientists have discovered the fossil of a bizarre, opossum-sized mammal on the African island. A team led by the Denver ...

Grubby, the female opossum that hitched a ride to Alaska on a shipping container two years ago — spurring a manhunt, memes and a frenzy in a small coastal town — has died, the Alaska Zoo said Tuesday.

An opossum that found its way to Homer in a shipping container and has been on the loose for close to two months has been captured and is now in Anchorage, where it will be kept at the Alaska Zoo. The ...