The Virginia opossum is North America’s only marsupial (a mammal that carries its young in a pouch) and is native to the southern U.S. However, it’s been staging an invasion into Canada ...

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 ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in the U.S. "Their little babies live in the mother's pouch until they get big enough, and then they ride on her back," says Mizejewski. "It's super ...

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it means to die.

possums played possum for an average of two minutes, six seconds. Then Dr. Lowenbach and Dr. John Andrews Ritchie gave the marsupials standard electric-shock treatments. After ten doses the ...

As soon as its meal was munched, the possum climbed up to hide in the rafters. This nocturnal marsupial, native to Australia, is widespread and locally abundant. Its long, sharp claws are made for ...

Lead researcher Stanislaw Wawrzyczek said before this study, pollination by mammals in south-western Australia was thought to be primarily achieved by the honey possum—a unique marsupial that ...

The mykure, weasel or opossum, has the scientific name Didelphis albiventris. It is a species of marsupial didelphimorph of the Didelphidae family, which lives throughout South America and ...