Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About the size of a cat, possums (real name, Opossum, but most of us drop the O) are North America’s only marsupial and can be ...

If you think possums are funny-looking, threatening pests that should be destroyed if they set so much as a paw on your property, you're probably in the majority. However, you are still sorely ...

A few recent roadkill sightings reminded me that opossums, often just called possums, seem to compete well with raccoons for dumbest animals trying to cross a road. A picture sent to me by Mississippi ...

DOUGLASS, Mass. (WJAR) - A retired firefighter helped save a family of baby possums thanks to going above and beyond. John Gregson, 61, was a firefighter in Rhode Island for nearly 30 years. He ...

This awesome possum clearly fancies themselves the Tom Cruise of the marsupial world. Just watch this brave creature ...

Each year, more and more Victorians become sick with a flesh-eating bacteria known as Buruli ulcer. Last year, 363 people presented with the infection, the highest number since 2004. Buruli ulcer, ...

Possums are naturally incredible climbers.

Dorothy Gale, of “Wizard of Oz” fame, was obviously not from the Pacific Northwest. If she was, she’d have known that lions and tigers don’t live in forests. She’d also have known that you are far ...

Wild possums are destroying Brooklynites’ gardens, threatening small dogs and terrifying teenage girls. “Last year, while walking around the [Dyker Beach] golf course at dusk, my daughter and I bumped ...

Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A ...