Most of us have heard the phrase “playing possum,” whether we know what a possum is or not. What many Americans call a possum is in fact an opossum. While that “o” might not seem like a big deal, it ...

Possums look like scraggly, ratty creatures—or at least that’s what I used to think. You see them trundling across roads at nighttime, sharp-toothed bundles of fur with a long naked tail trailing ...

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 ...

Did you know that possums and opossums are two different animals? I found this information on page 21 in the book ABCs of Animals by Bobbie Kalman. They belong to different groups of marsupials. The ...

Grubby, an iconic opossum who hitchhiked to Alaska on a shipping container, died at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage on Saturday.

You say possum. I say opossum. And I’m right, so I’m calling the whole thing off. But not so fast. The possum-vs.-opossum quandary recently came up while I was editing a Beacon story about a ...

Do opossums hang by their tails in trees? I've heard that they do. Origins: Opossums are misunderstood creatures, often mistaken for members of the rodent family because of their long rat-like tails.

On November 24 — the day after Thanksgiving — an employee at Cash’s Liquor Store in Oskaloosa Island, Florida found a “fairly large” opossum had broken into the store to polish off a bottle of bourbon ...

No one knows this better than the employees and volunteers at the Greenville Humane Society in South Carolina. Being at the ...

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. On ...