Your visitor is more rat than opossum, but it is not the type of rat we’re used to seeing. It’s a dusky-footed woodrat. Woodrats can be just as troublesome as roof and Norway rats, ...

Remember Saffron the opossum? After the rat-tailed pet marsupial was seized by Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries officers during Carnival 2024, he seemed to vanish as completely as Amelia Earhart ...

The opossum was showing its teeth, she said — but there was no hissing. Ingram was able to calm the animal down before setting it outside her door and releasing it into the neighborhood.

Another opossum was found in Downtown Honolulu last July — that opossum tested negative for rabies. Opossums have been spotted in Hawai‘i in previous years, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2016.

An opossum with a “sweet tooth” was hospitalized after it annihilated an entire Costco chocolate mousse cake that was left outside on the porch of a Nebraska real estate agent’s home this week.

Months after the local shire's council discussed what it dubbed a "Rat Plague," thousands of rats are creating havoc in a small town on the coast in Queensland.

Moment Cat Who Looks Like a ‘Giant Rat’ Caught Red Handed Stealing Snacks. Posted: September 2, 2024 | Last updated: February 15, 2025 "THOUGHT IT WAS A BIG RAT OR A OPOSSUM," exclaimed one user.

With over 13,200 comments, people have been raving about the opossum, even commenting their best holiday-themed puns. Advertisement “‘And a possum in a pear tree,’” one person commented.

An opossum was safely escorted off the Mackinac Bridge by authorities. Opossums, native to North America, are often confused with possums, which are found in Australia. Both animals are nocturnal ...

An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being "one of the ...

If so, you likely have a rat or mouse in the house. To address this annoying issue properly, you’ll need to find out which critter is invading your home. From a distance, it can be tricky to ...

The common opossum is one of a handful of opossum species in Costa Rica and for me, the least attractive. To bring a picture of a Costa Rican common opossum to mind, picture whatever opossum raids the ...