A teen held a wild possum up by his neck and brought it into the house to show her parents. The possum did what possums do, "playing possum," meaning pretending to be dead. It is a natural defense ...

Brett Ingram told Business Insider she was home alone when she heard the creature "sneeze." She said it took 30 minutes to wrangle the animal, and she briefly thought about keeping it as a pet. Forget ...

Brett Ingram had just come home from work and settled onto her couch when she saw it: The wild opossum in her Christmas tree. The 29-year-old from the Dallas Fort Worth area got her first brush with ...

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. ...

A wayward opossum that was discovered walking on the Bay Bridge in February has been released into the wild after being treated at a San Rafael wildlife rescue center. In an "extremely slow-speed ...