During an expedition to the Peruvian Andes in 2018, a team of researchers exploring Abiseo River National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, made an extraordinary discovery: a previously undocumented ...

Scientists caught a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” in a trap at a Peru national park and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Pedro Peloso, shared by Robert Voss In the Andes ...

A North American possum perched on a branch (Cody Pope/Wikipedia) There's a wild opossum in the Homer area, and not everybody is upset about it. Many, including the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, ...

Did you know that the American opossum is the only marsupial living in the United States? Opossums are part of the Didelphidae family and have super interesting facts about them. Another fact about ...

If there were ever a misunderstood animal, it is the opossum. They’re not cute. They hang around our garbage and stress out our dogs late at night when they’re creeping along the fence or around the ...