>> HEY, IT’S OK. HEY, IT’S OK. SARAH: KEVIN HARDY SAYS HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORK HALLOWEEN NIGHT, WHEN HE SAW SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. >> SOMETHING CAUGHT THE CORNER OF MY EYE. I THOUGHT IT WAS ...

Possums can be the subject of cute fascination, morbid curiosity (quite literally, these creatures play dead as a defense mechanism) or a nuisance to homeowners. Perhaps your knowledge of possums ...

The cake-stuffed Omaha opossum was taken in by the Nebraska Wildlife Rehab rescue group. Sometimes, your eyes are bigger than your stomach. That’s what happened to a very relatable opossum in Omaha, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — First off, using the O is the accurate pronunciation for opossum but saying possum in the U.S. is acceptable, said Leigh Spencer, the education and engagement manager for ...

If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, well, then you have something in common with the animal that is the subject of this week’s article -- the opossum. A study conducted by the University of Florida ...

The Virginia opossum is truly unique in many ways and as North America’s only marsupial, definitely one of a kind. I believe this much-maligned mammal to be among the most misunderstood and ...

My crippling fear of opossums goes back to around the third grade. One late summer night, one of those rat-faced marsupials was “playing possum” under my family’s backyard rose bush, slumped in a ...

That was the warning Justine Latton’s husband issued before instructing his friend to look above his head. The pair had been in the middle of fixing a door inside an old ski lodge at Mount Field ...

This week was a bittersweet one at the zoo. Visitors to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, with their panda-patterned hats and panda umbrellas, flooded in to say farewell to the zoo’s three ...