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 ...

The Virginia opossum is North America’s only marsupial (a mammal that carries its young in a pouch) and is native to the southern U.S. However, it’s been staging an invasion into Canada ...

Far from a moose, beaver, or polar bear, a recent study published in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist has found the ...

So I'm always trying to sing the praises of opossums and get people to see them in a new light, like ugly is the new cute." Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in the U.S. "Their little ...

WildCare Oklahoma reported an unprecedented number of late season babies from several species of animals.According to ...

Virginia opossum: When threatened, an opossum will faint and look quite dead—from its prone posture to its drooling, tongue-lolling grimace—which led to the phrase “playing possum” to ...

An “I Voted” sticker showing a cute possum filling out a ballot was a hit in the Richmond region on Election Day. The sticker was created by Virginia Commonwealth University graduate Asia ...

When we think of Canadian animals, cultural icons like the moose, beaver, or loon are probably first to come to mind — but ...

However, this article compares the opossum, commonly called a possum in North America, with the raccoon, an animal that shares their range. Specifically, we are using the Virginia opossum as our ...

In fact, the spiny softshell turtle is Canada's most distinct animal in evolutionary terms, researchers from Simon Fraser ...

Arne Mooers, a biodiversity professor who led the research, says it means the threatened freshwater turtle has spent the ...

The most Canadian animal? It's not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the ...