Unlike the cliche, familiarity doesn't seem to breed contempt. It breeds indifference instead. Why else would we take so little interest in one of the most fascinating of Alabama's wildife - the ...

The poor opossum - this often misunderstood marsupial suffers from an image problem. It is sometimes perceived as a giant, dirty, scavenging rat rather than an interesting creature of the wild. But ...

Researchers are investigating the ongoing northward range expansion of the common Virginia opossum. The headline reads like something from the satirical newspaper The Onion: "Grand Forks opossum slain ...

A chance finding at a Brazilian museum has revealed a brand-new species of opossum. Biologist Silvia Pavan first discovered an unnamed mammal specimen with rich mahogany fur in 2008 at the Museu ...