Florida panthers prey on an assortment of mammals, including opossums. But for one seemingly oblivious opossum recently, it must have been its lucky night. The accompanying footage, credited to Dick ...

One rascally Florida opossum is being mercilessly ribbed on social media after it refused to be rescued from a trash bin full of beer cans. The odd discovery was made March 13 — yes, during Spring ...

Opossums are cat-sized marsupials known to “play dead” when threatened, the Florida fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says. This is not the opossum involved in the fatal crash. Karen ...

The Florida Highway Patrol tells PEOPLE that the Aug. 10 incident remains under investigation David Chiu is a staff writer, Human Interest, for PEOPLE. A former PEOPLE intern from 2007 to 2008, he has ...