So in addition to our Virginia opossum, there are mouse opossums, slender opossums, water opossums, pygmy opossums, and woolly opossums, not to mention fat-, short-, thick-, and bushy-tailed ...

The ones I’ve captured on video before shows opossums that look like ones in Tennessee, where I grew up; however, the opossum in one video looks like its tail exploded. Its right hind leg looks ...

The ones I’ve captured on video before shows opossums that look like ones in Tennessee, where I grew up; however, the opossum in one video looks like its tail exploded. Its right hind leg looks ...

In the US and Canada, the only opossum species is the Virginia opossum. Opossums have a scaly, nearly hairless rat-like tail. Possums have a bushy tail similar to a squirrel’s.

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, the ground dropped out underneath its hairy paws, and it fell into a ...