Last spring, more than 40 Virginia opossums were returned to the wild after coming to Toronto Wildlife Centre with frostbite, ...

In Southwest Virginia, a nearly frozen opossum has become the star of an unusual wildlife rescue story, primarily because of ...

Two wombs, a forked penis, and giving birth through the nose. These are just a few of the bizarre stories circulating about the reproductive biology of the Virginia opossum. This beady-eyed, big-eared ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There is only one kind of marsupial found north of Mexico — and it bears Virginia’s namesake. The Virginia opossum is the full name of the fuzzy little creature many drivers see ...

Blossum, a Virginia opossum, served as an animal ambassador at the Florida Wildlife Hospital. She was euthanized at nearly ...

ANN ARBOR--The headline reads like something from the satirical newspaper The Onion: "Grand Forks opossum slain; body to go to University of Michigan for research." But for U-M graduate biology ...

Groundhog Day didn’t belong to Punxsutawney Phil this year — it belonged to a Virginia opossum named Birmingham Jill. While the calendar flipped to Monday, Feb. 2, a native Virginia opossum stole the ...

Last year, Vivien Deal-Sosa was studying state symbols with her fourth grade class in Chesterfield, New Hampshire when she had an idea: why not make the Virginia opossum, North America’s only native ...