Opossums are cat-sized marsupials known to “play dead” when threatened, the Florida fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says. This is not the opossum involved in the fatal crash. Karen ...

Hawaii agriculture officials captured two live opossums on Tuesday at separate locations at Honolulu Harbor, the state Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity said. Another opossum was caught at ...

Grubby, the female opossum that hitched a ride to Alaska on a shipping container two years ago — spurring a manhunt, memes and a frenzy in a small coastal town — has died, the Alaska Zoo said Tuesday.

Sept. 18 (UPI) --A police officer was called to a Kansas home to evict an unusual trespasser -- an opossum trapped inside the house's fireplace. The Shawnee Police Department said on social media that ...

Scientists are trying to understand footage that showed ocelots and opossums, usually predator and prey, hanging out together. By Clarissa Brincat Screenwriters in search of the next Timon and Pumbaa ...