Opossums tend to get a bad rap because they're not the most friendly looking creatures, with their hissing mouths full of sharp teeth and naked, rat-like tails. But the North American marsupials are ...

An opossum stormed a college football field on Friday in what may go down as one of the quickest instances of animal wrangling ever seen at a living sporting event. After the first quarter came to a ...

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 ...

My crippling fear of opossums goes back to around the third grade. One late summer night, one of those rat-faced marsupials was “playing possum” under my family’s backyard rose bush, slumped in a ...

A Texas woman has gone viral after capturing the moment she found an uninvited guest hiding in her Christmas tree. Brett Ingram, 29, a media marketing manager based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, told ...

A baby opossum was found beaten until she was blinded at a Hilton Head golf course in South Carolina, according to the Wildlife Rehab of Greenville. The opossum, now named Scarlett, was found on ...

The opossum, found in Mountain Park, Fulton County, is under the care of a rescue organization after being burned. Alexandra and Bethen Rose, who found and transported the opossum, named her Phoenix ...