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 ...

Sunday was Groundhog Day, and while Bill, the Birmingham Zoo's resident groundhog decided to sleep in, another animal stepped ...

Marsupials include kangaroos, wombats, koalas, opossums, and others that carry young in a pouch. Two-thirds of the world’s ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in the U.S. "Their little babies live in the mother's pouch until they get big enough, and then they ride on her back," says Mizejewski.

The animals were selected for the project because they are marsupial, "belonging to an order of animals that matures while attached to mammary glands in their mother's external pouch. Opossums are ...