The poor opossum really does deserve our pity. This critter, officially known as the Virginia opossum, has very little going for it other than just about everyone would agree that it is ugly. And and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opossums might not be everyone's favorite animal. Some mistake them for huge rats due to their distinctive features, such as their ...

Whether celebrated as Michigan's only marsupial or reviled as backyard pests, opossums make an impression. Famous for playing dead, they are a common sight rooting around trash cans or sheltering in ...

There has always been information about wild animals passed down through generations that, while passed off as facts, turn out to be nothing more than tall tales or myths. A few likely started out ...

Mary Schmidt discusses opossum facts, and Carol Reese talks about groundcovers. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Mary Schmidt of Lichterman Nature Center discusses some facts ...

When Basil the Virginia opossum arrived at the National Zoo over the summer, he had been injured by a predator attack, lost one eye, and was unlikely to survive in the wild due to his injuries. Now, D ...

The Virginia opossum is truly unique in many ways and as North America’s only marsupial, definitely one of a kind. I believe this much-maligned mammal to be among the most misunderstood and ...

From time to time, I’m contacted by people who have a favourite garden tree that seems suddenly to be in serious decline and lacking healthy foliage. Often the decline has been occurring over many ...

Nothing can turn your stomach after breakfast like having possums get up in your grill. Usually when wildlife darts across our backyard, my younger son points and shouts, "Deer!" or "Robin!" or "Bunny ...