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The researchers extrapolated from this that a wild opossum could potentially eat around 5,500 ticks per week during tick ...

A Victorian emblem — the lowland Leadbeater's possum — is dangerously close to extinction, with only a few dozen left in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — If you’re out and about on the trails this fall, you might run into a fuzzy black and orange fellow inching across your path. The woolly bear caterpillar, also known as the ...

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 ...

Schmitt, D. & Lemelin, P. Origins of primate locomotion: gait mechanics of the woolly opossum. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 118, 231-238 (2002). Susman, R. L. Facultative terrestrial ...

I grew up in a place that doesn't have opossums. So when I finally saw one in my 30s, it was a real treat — a treat that kept on giving, as it turned out, because he started living under my house.

Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact. This woolly rhino died when it was about ...

Some of the well-preserved Pleistocene animals he has worked with include the mummified remains of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), an extinct form of rabbit (Lepus tanaiticus), and cave ...

A relative of the elephant, the woolly mammoth is one of the most famous extinct creatures in Earth's history. How exactly the species died out 4,000 years ago is something of a mystery ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...