With white faces, naked tails and beady eyes, these critters might be mistaken for a very large rat, but they’re a much more interesting neighbour. The Virginia opossum is North America’s only ...

Far from a moose, beaver, or polar bear, a recent study published in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist has found the ...

Some species, like the opossum and striped skunk, are rare and occur mostly at the periphery of the Adirondacks. Other species, such as the white-tailed deer and short-tailed shrew, are common and ...

In this clip, famed songwriter and musician Phillip Lammonds plays a bit of Blues guitar for his feathered friend, a ...

3.Abraham Lincoln *almost* joined the Donner party: People across the country began sending the President opossums. One such incident was when Texas hunters captured a rare white opossum and sent it ...

In the United States, white-tailed deer fed on discarded fish. Our study found brushtail possums are an important scavenging species across several Australian ecosystems. It also highlights how ...

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida is continuing to ...

They may look cute but possums can inflict so much damage to our native bush. I remember night after night being woken by the sound of my Jack Russell barking furiously at a possum up the old oak ...

I’m not a vegan. You won’t find me stripping naked, drenching myself in red paint, and gluing myself to the front of an Ugg ...

A South Pacific island is offering America the deal of the century. Is Washington listening? The post Bougainville: The world’s next new country? appeared first on The World from PRX.

No need to read your horror-scope, everyone knows that spooky season is approaching the witching hour, and you better ...

A trip to the Tautuku ecology restoration project to learn about ongoing efforts to help the forest and its inhabitants.