Virginia opossums are unique as they are the only native marsupials found in the United States and Canada. Opossums are marsupial creatures with adorable facades; they have funny eyes, their noses are ...

Would you keep a rat as a pet? For some people, a rodent is an ideal companion. Some living in Rajasthan, India, take it even further. Here, rats are revered to the point that they even have their own ...

With collage as her chosen medium, artist Andrea Bergen’s work is at once wildly energetic, colorfully vibrant, and not a ...

David is a retired Environmental Scientist with a passion for wildlife photography and travel. He has lived in Shasta County for the last 38 years with his wife Becky. If the light is at all ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

None of these poisons has any specificity for possums—and that can be a good thing, because rats can be killed as well—but the NSSC sees a need for poisons with a degree of specificity, so that ...

Sollenberger called spring "a busy time for snakes," noting sightings of them rise significantly this time of year. And there ...

The Western Ringtail Possum is an arboreal, herbivorous marsupial endemic to the south-west of WA. It depends on high quality forage from myrtaceous tree species. Western Ringtail Possums disappeared ...

From a ban on cat declawing to designating the state’s official marsupial, New Hampshire lawmakers thought outside the box ...

roof rat, opossum, and pocket gopher. I would like to give a big high four to the naturalists and staff over at the Doug Siden Visitors Center at Crab Cove and the Alameda County Vector Control ...