Florida panthers prey on an assortment of mammals, including opossums. But for one seemingly oblivious opossum recently, it must have been its lucky night. The accompanying footage, credited to ...

Their long sleep duration allows them to conserve energy, crucial for survival in their natural habitats. As nocturnal creatures, opossums spend the day resting and hiding from predators ...

Sunday was Groundhog Day, and while Bill, the Birmingham Zoo's resident groundhog decided to sleep in, another animal stepped ...

But are they? In “Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death,” Susana Monsó, a professor of philosophy at the National Distance Education University in Madrid, argues that although humans ...

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 ...