A New Hampshire senator, with help from a fifth grade class, is trying to make the Virginia opossum the Granite State's ...

The Virginia opossum (Didel-phis virginiana), a marsupial, is native to North America and is often considered to be untamable. There are local instances of young opossums being raised as pets ...

Last year, Vivien Deal-Sosa was studying state symbols with her fourth grade class in Chesterfield, New Hampshire when she had an idea: why not make the Virginia opossum, North America’s only ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — The Buttonwood Park Zoo is mourning the loss of its ambassador animal, Odin the Virginia opossum.

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 ...

Signs of the virus were found in raccoons, deer mice, groundhogs, Eastern cottontail rabbits, Virginia opossums and Eastern ...

So I'm always trying to sing the praises of opossums and get people to see them in a new light, like ugly is the new cute." Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in the U.S. "Their ...

Buttonwood Park Zoo mourns the passing of Odin, a beloved Virginia opossum who served as a vital educational ambassador for ...

There is no shortage of disagreements between Democrats and Republicans in the New Hampshire Legislature, but when it comes to the Virginia opossum, there appears to be a good bit of bipartisan ...

A taxidermied Virginia opossum has been the centerpiece of its annual New Year celebration – lowered within a lighted spheroid snout-first into a crowd of delirious revelers. Conceived as an ...