I found an adorable new creature to obsess over! Meet the yapok, also known as a "water opossum" - the only marsupial adapted ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

The lesser short-tailed bat population, in the Murchison Mountains in Fiordland National Park, was holding steady at between 300 and 400, the Department of Conservation (Doc) found, after ...

These cute possums are seen playing together on a rock. Baby opossums are weaned at around three months of age and are on their own by five months, when they are approximately 7 to 9 inches long ...

A juvenile male long-tailed bat showing wing punctures caused by a cat. The bat, discovered near Otorohanga, was euthanised, and is one of the case studies written up in a new paper on the danger ...

The clever, nimble creature known as Opossum had a long, pointed face… small, rounded ears… and, back in those long-ago times, a fluffy, bushy tail. One day, Opossum called all the animals ...

The gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) in an increasingly popular laboratory animal due to the early stage of development of its newborns born at 14 PCD, which makes this species ...

An opossum. Credit: Shutterstock Throughout history, humans have given a lot of thought to death. We’ve grappled with our mortality, created elaborate burial rituals, and contemplated how best to ...

An adult opossum, a marsupial mammal species, is about the size of a house cat. Possums, as they are commonly called, are typically between 8.8 and 13.2 pounds in weight and around 2.5 feet long from ...

Additionally, opossums have short gray hair, pink feet, and a hairless tail. Australian Possum vs American Opossum: Size Both the possum and opossum are similar, with the opossum being slightly larger ...

The opossum is the only marsupial in North America. Douglas H. Domedion | contributor Doug Domedion He isn’t very smart, looks like a rat and his dirty white fur is not of good quality.

Lancaster downs Niagara Falls, forces deciding … Declan Farmer showing he's the best in world wh… THE GREAT OUTDOORS: Life for the opossum is simple and short By Douglas H. Domedion Aug 17 ...