In the mid-17th century, a creature of curious proportions was caught in Virginia and brought to the Royal Society in London for observation. The furry animal had a pointed snout, sharp teeth, and, ...

Two wombs, a forked penis, and giving birth through the nose. These are just a few of the bizarre stories circulating about the reproductive biology of the Virginia opossum. This beady-eyed, big-eared ...

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 ...

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, ...

ANN ARBOR--The headline reads like something from the satirical newspaper The Onion: "Grand Forks opossum slain; body to go to University of Michigan for research." But for U-M graduate biology ...