Vicious, indeed! Sadly, during particularly cold periods, helpful Virginia opossums start turning up in wildlife shelters or end up dead. Their naked tails, ears and paws are susceptible to the ...

To mitigate the increasingly out-of-control rat epidemic in Brooklyn, city officials let opossums loose in public parks and underneath the Coney Island boardwalk, so that the opossums could maim ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina wildlife officials are investigating a disturbing case of animal cruelty after a video showing an opossum being set on fire began circulating on social media in ...

Opossums live in much of the U.S. in woodland areas, marshes, farmlands, suburbs and cities. They don't live where it's overly cold or dry, like most of the Intermountain West. That's probably ...

Ever see an opossum in your backyard? You won't believe how cool (and helpful!) they are! Click to learn some amazing facts! ...

A woman became a honky-tonk hero when she humanely removed an opossum from Banita Creek Hall in Nacogdoches, Texas One opossum found out the hard way that marsupials and dance halls don't mix.