A hungry opossum with an unrivaled sweet tooth is on the road to recovery after eating an entire chocolate cake from Costco, an animal rehabilitation center posted. "This Virginia opossum was admitted ...

The gray short-tailed opossum has been a subject in behavioral and biomedical studies for the last quarter century, but researchers know little about its preferred diet. The authors describe a study ...

Most of us have heard the phrase “playing possum,” whether we know what a possum is or not. What many Americans call a possum is in fact an opossum. While that “o” might not seem like a big deal, it ...

Video by @cincinnatizooSound on to hear the opossum snacks on some food! With 50 teeth, the opossum has the most teeth of any ...

And now for something completely different. It was so surprisingly warm last Friday that our hopes for a white Christmas seemed to be blown to smithereens. I was home sick and I had gotten up at about ...

While some might find them gross, you could say that the animals we associate with garbage like opossums and raccoons are ecological success stories. We humans drastically change our environments ...

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 ...

Commonly seen after dark, the often observed opossum, has been around for approximately 70 million years. They have remained relatively unchanged for all these years. Quite a remarkable fact.

L’Opossum, with its flamboyance and gumption, is helping to shake up this town’s already vibrant restaurant scene. Shannon is reinventing food, hospitality and ambience with his own special wit and ...

A young opossum among the offspring of Grubby the opossum, captured in Homer on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (Jason Herreman/ADFG) State biologists are continuing their efforts in Homer to catch offspring ...