Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, Vivien Deal-Sosa was studying state symbols with her fourth grade class in Chesterfield, New Hampshire when she had an ...

With a nearly hairless, scaly tail, a mouth full of teeth, the ability to “play dead” and its I-don’t-give-a-dang attitude, the opossum might be one of the most unique mammals waddling around Nebraska ...

I have to admit that for many years I did not have a high opinion concerning opossums. After all, they are anything but nice looking, more often looking rather ragged and with a “rat-like” tail. When ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There is only one kind of marsupial found north of Mexico — and it bears Virginia’s namesake. The Virginia opossum is the full name of the fuzzy little creature many drivers see ...

Most of us drop the O in his name and just call this homely guy a possum, but the proper spelling is opossum. He is not a large rat, as he may appear, but rather is the lone North American member of a ...

With a pink nose and silky brown fur, the opossum is the ugly duckling of the marsupials. The animal can be found in cities, but it is often mistreated because of its distant resemblance to the rat, ...

For Prairie Park Nature Center's Opossum Grams program, Teacup the opossum will soon be visiting people around Lawrence with holiday greetings. If the holiday stress is getting to you, you might take ...

When she makes her nighttime appearance—in a leafy corner of the yard, maybe, or along a power line slung across an alley—you’ll see her eyes first, two bright-greenish orbs, floating side by side in ...

Chances are, you’ve seen an opossum — known by many as a “possum” — in the headlights of your car or at the edge of your yard, startled by the motion-activated floodlight on your back porch. Maybe it ...

Last year, Vivien Deal-Sosa was studying state symbols with her fourth grade class in Chesterfield, New Hampshire when she had an idea: why not make the Virginia opossum, North America’s only native ...