WAYNESBORO, Va. (WRIC) — The Wildlife Center of Virginia has begun caring for a juvenile opossum after it was found clinging to its dead mother who was hit by a driver. According to the center, the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There is only one kind of marsupial found north of Mexico — and it bears Virginia’s namesake. The Virginia opossum is the full name of the fuzzy little creature many ...

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it ...

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 ...

Raccoons and possums are often confused with one another. After all, they’re both likely to spend some time sifting through ...

Far from a moose, beaver, or polar bear, a recent study published in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist has found the ...

WildCare Oklahoma reported an unprecedented number of late season babies from several species of animals.According to ...

Virginia opossum: When threatened, an opossum will faint and look quite dead—from its prone posture to its drooling, tongue-lolling grimace—which led to the phrase “playing possum” to ...

When we think of Canadian animals, cultural icons like the moose, beaver, or loon are probably first to come to mind — but ...

In fact, the spiny softshell turtle is Canada's most distinct animal in evolutionary terms, researchers from Simon Fraser ...

Arne Mooers, a biodiversity professor who led the research, says it means the threatened freshwater turtle has spent the ...

The most Canadian animal? It's not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the ...