DEAR JOAN: I was wondering if you could identify a critter in my yard. Is it a rat or an opossum? I’ve seen rats in our yard before, but none that look like this. It doesn’t run away like a rat would, ...

Raccoons and possums and rats — oh my! Critters and critics abound at a Brooklyn public housing complex where a stalled climate resiliency project now provides long-term housing for all kinds of ...

Most of us drop the O in his name and just call this homely guy a possum, but the proper spelling is opossum. He is not a large rat, as he may appear, but rather is the lone North American member of a ...

Tonight's "What in the World" segment delves into the capture of a possum-sized rat in Yorkshire, England, and why experts say rats are only getting bigger. #Rats #Animals #Weird Belinda Carlisle, 67, ...

Opossums tend to get a bad rap because they're not the most friendly looking creatures, with their hissing mouths full of sharp teeth and naked, rat-like tails. But the North American marsupials are ...

An opossum walks into a Brooklyn bar — it sounds like the set up to a joke, but it's actually the set up to an "only in New York" story. It's the story that made Sara Fulton a local celebrity for what ...

A woman’s aesthetically decorated Christmas tree has gone viral for a different kind of decoration, after an opossum found its way inside. The video, with 4.2 million views, starts with TikTok user ...

During the past few days I've received numerous emails from people in New Zealand and from around the world about how youngsters are encouraged to kill animals, in this case possums, as fundraising ...

Did you hear the one about the opossum who walks into a bar — and gets owned by an Alaskan woman? A courageous gal from up north came to the rescue of New York revelers last week after heroically ...