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 ...

“In reality, they just want to be left alone and eat ticks.” The disposition of the possum is what she believes makes the animals so easy to relate to, and a great subject for memes. The half ...

The researchers extrapolated from this that a wild opossum could potentially eat around 5,500 ticks per week during tick ...

The Minister's eyes were like egg yolks, an aftereffect of some of the many illnesses, malaria especially, endemic in his country. There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes. He spoke in a ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold ...

SciFri producer Kathleen Davis talks with Dr. Susana Monsó, associate professor of philosophy at the National Distance Education University in Spain and author of Playing Possum: How Animals ...

From opossums to caterpillars, there are many practical uses for poo. Just as we all experience birth and death, every living animal on this earth poops. Through evolution, the rich diversity of ...

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Filled with fun new adventures, follow Sally and Possum as they explore, discover, and learn about the world around them using Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Early Stage 1 English ABC iview Home ...

One member of her farm family is a potbelly pig named Possum, whom she took in as a runt "falling way behind in growth," she told Newsweek. After Possum and his sibling, Wilby, gained some ...

Pogo Possum, Churchy LaFemme, Porky Pine and the rest of the Okefenokee Swamp gang butchered common phrases and skewered current events in the strip nationally syndicated from 1949 to 1975.