Most of us have heard the phrase “playing possum,” whether we know what a possum is or not. What many Americans call a possum is in fact an opossum. While that “o” might not seem like a big deal, it ...

Mary Schmidt discusses opossum facts, and Carol Reese talks about groundcovers. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Mary Schmidt of Lichterman Nature Center discusses some facts ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about a mammal I saw on my way to the mailbox. I asked readers to guess its identity. It was a plains pocket gopher. Some of the guesses included beaver, shrew and opossum. The ...

Did you know that North Carolina has a state marsupial? Our state named the Virginia opossum as our official symbol in 2013. The opossum is the only marsupial native to North America. Opossums are ...

The following were among cases handled recently by the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, which operates the Alexandria Animal Shelter and provides animal control services to Alexandria. For more ...