Scientists have rediscovered two marsupial species believed extinct for about 6,000 years in the rainforests of West Papua’s Vogelkop Peninsula, highlighting the biodiversity significance of remote ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Opossums are again being spotted around the region; columnist says the unfamiliar marsupial may look out of place, but it’s far from a menace ...

Opossums are again being spotted around the region. Columnist says the unfamiliar marsupial may look out of place, but it’s far from a menace ...

Baby wildlife season has started and so have calls to animal shelter wildlife helplines from concerned humans.

Two wombs, a forked penis, and giving birth through the nose. These are just a few of the bizarre stories circulating about the reproductive biology of the Virginia opossum. This beady-eyed, big-eared ...

Brittanii Lehman tells PEOPLE that her daughter frequently catches and releases opossums Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, ...

Three baby opossums found outside the Lehighton Police Department are now in the care of the Carbon County Environmental Education Center. “Our local police have always been very good about helping us ...

It was that surprisingly warm Friday last week when our hopes for a white Christmas seemed to be dashed to smithereens. I was home, sick, and I had gotten up at about 7 a.m., which is late for me.