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On December 12, 2025, in Round Rock, Texas, USA, @...mama...ks shared a video capturing a funny wildlife encounter on their balcony. In the video, a skunk suddenly attacks an opossum while it eats, ...

The Piccaninny Plains Wildlife Sanctuary in Far North Queensland, Australia, is home to many beloved local animals, including ...

A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- This summer, a Bay Area wildlife rescue made headlines for an unusual request: foster parents for baby opossums. The story went viral, drawing tens of thousands of likes and ...

DEAR JOAN: We have an opossum living at the base of a shrub in our side yard. We generally don’t go near there, only when we take the garbage to the curb weekly. My husband is talking about trimming ...

A teen held a wild possum up by his neck and brought it into the house to show her parents. The possum did what possums do, "playing possum," meaning pretending to be dead. It is a natural defense ...

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Two live opossums were captured on Tuesday at two separate locations at Honolulu Harbor. At 6:45 a.m. Tuesday, a shipping company reported seeing an opossum running around ...