Florida researchers are using opossums fitted with tracking collars to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons threatening endangered species in Key Largo. The approach targets large breeding ...

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...

One challenge in managing invasive pythons is their elusive behavior, compounded by the difficult-to-access terrain and their ...

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...

I’ve always been unashamedly pro-possum. Contrary to popular belief, they’re not especially likely to carry rabies, and they have a voracious appetite for ticks — helping limit the spread of Lyme ...

(CNN) — An Australian airport is going viral after a video posted online showed a live possum snuggled up next to stuffed animals in a terminal gift shop. The strange scene unfolded in Tasmania’s ...

A brushtail possum pulled off what might be the most adorable act of camouflage ever caught on camera—sneaking into the gift shop at Hobart Airport in Tasmania, Australia, and tucking itself onto a ...

With its ears perked up and its eyes scanning the room on high alert, a possum in southern Australia has gained popularity online after trying to blend in with plushies at an airport convenience store ...

Someone was playing possum — or stuffed animal. Among plush kangaroos, dingoes and Tasmanian devils ready to be bought by parents of antsy children, a live brushtail possum waited in a gift shop at an ...

One of these things is not like the others. And while some stuffed animals look really life-like, one real animal tried to blend in with the stuffed ones. The comical and darling sight was found at a ...