My crippling fear of opossums goes back to around the third grade. One late summer night, one of those rat-faced marsupials was “playing possum” under my family’s backyard rosebush, slumped in a ...

LOS ANGELES — People have been calling Leslie Bale about opossums since 1982 when she started on the graveyard shift as a 911 dispatcher for the Irvine Police Department. The calls came from ...

People have been calling Leslie Bale about opossums since 1982 when she started on the graveyard shift as a 911 dispatcher for the Irvine Police Department in California. The calls came from ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

EAST AURORA NY — The Opossum is one of those animals that just doesn't get respect. Widely considered a nuisance animal, most people are familiar with it as road kill, rather than a beneficial part of ...

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 ...

My crippling fear of opossums goes back to around the third grade. One late summer night, one of those rat-faced marsupials was “playing possum” under my family’s backyard rose bush, slumped in a ...

A video of an opossum being treated to his own charcuterie board is warming hearts online. Dodger, a 5-month-old opossum, lives at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. In the clip shared by ...

IN contrast to the generally accepted theory that progesterone has only definite effects in females, we have found that this hormone produces readily demonstrable changes in the intact male as well as ...