Courthouse News' western bureau chief's recent run-in with North America's only marsupial species is also a lesson for humanity living in the age of Covid. Western Bureau Chief for Courthouse News ...

Opossums are everywhere on TikTok right now, thanks to righteous outrage over a recent YouTube stunt involving one of the ...

A few days ago, I was walking along Fernwood Road in Bethesda, in a neighborhood full of office buildings and parking lots. It was not a setting where you'd expect to see animals, except as hood ...

With its rat-like tail and hairless ears, the humble opossum doesn’t get a lot of respect. But North America’s only native marsupial, or pouched animal, plays a valuable role in nature. “Opossums are ...

DEAR JOAN: Recently, we had an unusual sighting in our backyard — a mother opossum carrying her babies. Is there anything that we can or should do to help protect the mother and her babies? Jennifer W ...

Red Dead Redemption 2’s Master Hunter 9 Challenge tasks you to “kill an Opossum playing possum.” Good news: Opossums tend to play possum a lot. Bad news: It’s hard to find Opossums. Best news: This ...

70 million years ago dinosaurs roamed the earth; they are gone, but one of their companions remains: the opossum. The ones we have around here are the Virginia opossum. The only North American ...

A few days ago, I was talking to some of my friends about a surprise visitor that showed up the other night on the backyard patio deck. “Was it one of those behemoth black bears?” one asked. “I bet it ...